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If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail.
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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We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realise any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience every time.
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And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever love at all.
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Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.
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Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.
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There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
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Every profound new movement makes a great swing also backwards to some older, half-forgotten way of consciousness.
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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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I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes of bombs would have done.
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It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.
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The final aim is not to know, but to be.... You've got to know yourself so that you can at last be yourself. Be yourself is the last motto.
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The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.
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Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.
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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other, knits the sleep, so that it takes the body and soul completely in its healing.
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One should stick by one's soul, and by nothing else. In one's soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life from death. And if one betrays one's own soul-knowledge one is the worst of traitors.
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I do esteem individual liberty above everything.
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An illusion which is a real experience is worth having.
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I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred orange and scrub the floor.
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The east is not for me--the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes.
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