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David Herbert Lawrence

"It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral."

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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 great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action."
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David Herbert Lawrence
"My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily."
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David Herbert Lawrence
"Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion."
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David Herbert Lawrence
"The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one."
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David Herbert Lawrence
"One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease."
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David Herbert Lawrence
"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."
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David Herbert Lawrence
"I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams."
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"Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little."
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David Herbert Lawrence
"The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write."
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David Herbert Lawrence
"It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral."

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"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."

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"Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."

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"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"

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"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."

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"Wouldn't it be amazing if you could travel into the future, see where you messed up, and then go back in time to rearrange things in order to make your future better? You can. If you can foresee regret, you can mind-travel to the future. If you can train yourself to mind-travel effectively, you can intentionally affect your future by doing something about it today."

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"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

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"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."

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"Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again."

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"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."

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"Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes."

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