“Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.”
— David Herbert Lawrence
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“Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.”
— David Herbert Lawrence
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Category: intelligence
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“Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.”
— David Herbert Lawrence
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Category: experience
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“Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.”
— David Herbert Lawrence
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“Men! The only animal in the world to fear.”
— David Herbert Lawrence
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“I am in love – and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.”
— David Herbert Lawrence
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Category: love
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“There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.”
— David Herbert Lawrence
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“The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.”
— David Herbert Lawrence
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“Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.”
— David Herbert Lawrence
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“Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.”
— David Herbert Lawrence
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“All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.”
— David Herbert Lawrence
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Category: truth
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