Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
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The near end of the street was rather dark and had mostly vegetable shops. Abundance of vegetables piles of white and green fennel, like celery, and great sheaves of young, purplish, sea-dust-coloured artichokes ... long strings of dried figs, mountains of big oranges, scarlet large peppers, a large slice of pumpkin, a great mass of colours and vegetable freshness....David Herbert Lawrence
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
David Herbert Lawrence
How the horse dominated the mind of the early races, especially of the Mediterranean You were a lord if you had a horse. Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances.... The horse, the horse The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action, in man.
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God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
David Herbert Lawrence
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
David Herbert Lawrence
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
David Herbert Lawrence
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