English - Writer | September 11, 1885 - March 2, 1930
There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
D. H. Lawrence
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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
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Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.
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Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
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All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
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They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
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The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
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Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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