English - Writer | September 11, 1885 - March 2, 1930
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
D. H. Lawrence
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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
BirdSmallSorryWillNeverWild
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
LifeWisdomKnowledgeLife Is AEdge
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
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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.
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The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
JusticeSoulAngerAngryFollow
For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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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.
DreamsMenSleepWorldSnakeMad
There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
WolfEndGardenMoralityStreet
When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
EdgeLandOverSomewhereBound
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