Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there. In his own pure individuality a man surpasses his father and mother, and is utterly unknown to them.


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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it....
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Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffin...
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would ...
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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...
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The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and...
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it ...
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There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the str...
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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is a...
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The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar...
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I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins ...
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with t...
D. H. LAWRENCE
You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positi...
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It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of...
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The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intui...
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Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with se...
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For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly...
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It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A moralit...
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But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness an...
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Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that. - Selected Essays.
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Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and belie...
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But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his ...
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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us...
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But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness...
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And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain...
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say,...
D H LAWRENCE
Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.
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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.
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The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intu...
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For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intui...
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Men can such the heady juice of exalted self-importance from the bitter weed of failure--failures ar...
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever ha...
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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
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For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuit...
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One watches them on the seashore, all the people, and there is something pathetic, almost wistful in...
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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Never trust the teller. Trust the tale.
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The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitut...
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They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
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A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping ...
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about...
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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the crea...
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One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are lik...
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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 ...
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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is...
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I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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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 human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.
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The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable o...
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I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, t...
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
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The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
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The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a go...
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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. ...
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always ...
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Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only ...
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
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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 P...
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One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be maste...
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Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an abs...
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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live marr...
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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my ...
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Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
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People always make war when they say they love peace.
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I shall always be a priest of love.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.
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I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a wo...
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel...
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