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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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Where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united.
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Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.
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In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all.
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Whatever men you take, keep the idea of man intact: let your soul wait whether your body does or not.
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Sacred love is selfless, seeking not its own. The lover serves his beloved and seeks perfect communion of oneness with her.
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The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is in the nature of the infant that which is utterly unknown in the natures of the parents.
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A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a filthy association, calls up some repulsive emotion. Well, then, cleanse the mind, that is the real job. It is the mind which is the Augean stables, not language.
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If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology.
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Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.
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Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong.
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It seems to me a purely lyric poet gives himself, right down to his sex, to his mood, utterly and abandonedly, whirls himself roundtill he spontaneously combusts into verse. He has nothing that goes on, no passion, only a few intense moods, separate like odd stars, and when each has burned away, he must die.
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The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy.
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The English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everybody makes everything so easy for everyone else, that there is almost nothing to resist at all.
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I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like a swan that can't settle, refusing to sit still and be measured and as if the atom were an impulsive thing always changing its mind.
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Whales in mid-ocean, suspended in the waves of the sea great heaven of whales in the waters, old hierarchies. And enormous mother whales lie dreaming suckling their whale-tender young and dreaming with strange whale eyes wide open in the waters of the beginning and the end.
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[Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.
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I am turned into a dream. I feel nothing, or I don't know what I feel. Yet it seems to me I am happy.
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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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