One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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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
Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
David Herbert Lawrence
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.
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Was it humility, to feel so honoured?
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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
David Herbert Lawrence
Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.
David Herbert Lawrence
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