If we had reverence for our life, our life would take at once religious form. But as it is, in our filthy irreverence, it remains a disgusting slough, where each one of us goes so thoroughly disguised in dirt that we are all alike and indistinguishab.
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Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works of art The thing becomes an imposition and a weariness at last. Give us things that are alive and flexible, which won't last too long and become an obstruction and a weariness. Even Michelangelo becomes at last a lump and a burden and a bore. It is so hard to see past him.D.H. Lawrence
The English kill off all their poets by the time they're forty
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The horse, the horse The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.
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Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
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The bourgeois produces the bolshevist, inevitably as every half-truth at length produces the contradiction of itself in the opposite half-truth.
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We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
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