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And can a man his own quietus make with a bare bodkin?
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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The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
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You don't want to be an animal, you want to observe your own animal functions, so as to get a mental thrill out of them. It is allpurely secondary--and more decadent than the most hide-bound intellectualism.
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She had borne so long the cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.
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Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.
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Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.
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The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.
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Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.
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It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show.
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The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.
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Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.
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Away with all ideals. Let each individual act spontaneously from the forever incalculable prompting of the creative wellhead within him. There is no universal law.
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The goal is to know how not-to-know.
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But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.
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Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.
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So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
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Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things.
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Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.
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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
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