Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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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!David Herbert Lawrence
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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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
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The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
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Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.
David Herbert Lawrence
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
David Herbert Lawrence
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