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David Herbert Lawrence

"The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up."

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"The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up."

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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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"My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily."
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"Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion."
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"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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"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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"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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"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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"The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write."
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"The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment."

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