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D. H. Lawrence

Nature
The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
4.9 · 29 votes · 11 reads
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Nature
The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge, man-being and woman-being.
3.6 · 25 votes · 120 reads
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Government and Politics
The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
3.0 · 19 votes · 69 reads
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Feelings
The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great -quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.
4.4 · 30 votes · 162 reads
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Nature
The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.
4.5 · 57 votes · 199 reads
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Various
There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
3.3 · 33 votes · 113 reads
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Art and Culture
They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.
4.3 · 41 votes · 186 reads
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Thought and Reason
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
4.7 · 64 votes · 127 reads
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Society
Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
4.0 · 24 votes · 115 reads
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Science and Technology
We have lost the art of living; and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.
3.6 · 31 votes · 46 reads
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Time
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
4.7 · 10 votes · 70 reads
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Government and Politics
You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people.'' One class is no better than another. It must be a case of Wisdom, or Truth. Let the working classes be working classes. That is the truth. There must be an aristocracy of people who
3.6 · 9 votes · 58 reads
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Society
You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.
3.6 · 60 votes · 5 reads
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