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I think I am much too valuable a creature to offer myself to a German bullet gratis and for fun.
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 word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist.
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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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Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
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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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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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You don't learn algebra with your blessed soul. Can't you look at it with your clear simple wits?
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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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The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
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And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.
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Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.
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The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
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