English - Writer | September 11, 1885 - March 2, 1930
I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
D. H. Lawrence
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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
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It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
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Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
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My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.
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Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
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One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
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Only in a novel are all things given full play.
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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
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The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
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The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
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The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
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