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[During the Renaissance] the Italians said, We are one in the Father: we will go back. The Northern races said, We are one in Christ, we will go on.
D. H. Lawrence
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D. H. Lawrence
Age: 45 †
Born: 1885
Born: January 1
Died: 1930
Died: January 1
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They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.
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How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions.
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Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.
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I'll do my life work, sticking up for the love between man and woman.
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Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.
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There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.
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How sure I feel, how warm and strong and happy For the future! How sure the future is within me I am like a seed with a perfect flower enclosed.
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That's just what a woman is. She thinks she knows what's good for a man, and she's going to see he gets it and no matter if he's starving, he may sit and whistle for what he needs, while she's got him, and is giving him what's good for him.
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Only the flow matters live and let live, love and let love. There is no point in love.
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It's hard to ravish a tin of sardines.
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... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not want that old sanity of the world, which was become so repulsive. He rejoiced in the new-found world of his madness. It was so fresh and delicate and so satisfying.
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I don't believe any more in democracy. But I can't believe in the old sort of aristocracy, either, nor can I wish it back, splendid as it was. What I believe in is the old Homeric aristocracy, when the grandeur was inside a man, and he lived in a simple wooden house.
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Sex is really only touch, the closest of all touch. And it's touch we're afraid of.
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God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
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I think I am much too valuable a creature to offer myself to a German bullet gratis and for fun.
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