“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.”
— David Herbert Lawrence
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“People always make war when they say they love peace.”
— David Herbert Lawrence
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“In every living thing there is the desire for love.”
— David Herbert Lawrence
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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.”
— David Herbert Lawrence
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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.”
— David Herbert Lawrence
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Category: truth
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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.”
— David Herbert Lawrence
Author: David Herbert Lawrence
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“Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.”
— David Herbert Lawrence
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Category: knowledge
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“People always make war when they say they love peace.”
— David Herbert Lawrence
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“It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.”
— David Herbert Lawrence
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Category: humor
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“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.”
— David Herbert Lawrence
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“The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.”
— David Herbert Lawrence
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Category: beauty
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