D. H. Lawrence

Writer

United Kingdom

1885 - 1930

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Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.
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The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
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The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
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California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.
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The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
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The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
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