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David Herbert Lawrence

"I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves."

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"I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves."

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"Beautiful places are almost alive! When you visit them, you can feel their breaths!"

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"I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate."

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"As a very young man, I thought of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious dreams, and through the careful lies of the silver screen."

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"I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side."

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"Without travels, our existence, our memories, our literature, our dreams, our everything would be very poor, very boring, very limited!"

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"The most beautiful thing about the most beautiful roads is that the destination is forgotten and the journey becomes the destination itself!"

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"I am blessed for what I have, but I believed in it from the beginning. Today, the dream is the same: I still want to travel, I still want to entertain, and I most certainly still want to have fun."

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"The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar."

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"It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent."

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"I am going to the USA to catch sight of a wild porcupine and to give some lectures."

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"Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration."
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"They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates."
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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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"God is only a great imaginative experience."
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"So, after three days of incessant brandy-drinking, he had burned out the youth from his blood, he had achieved this kindled state of oneness with all the world, which is the end of youth's most passionate desire."
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"Gods should be iridescent, like the rainbow in the storm. Man creates a God in his own image, and the gods grow old along with the men that made them... But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard."
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"You have striven so hard and so long to compel life. Can't you now slowly change and let life slowly drift into you ... let the invisible life steal into you and slowly possess you."
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"Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art if it be art will tell you the truth of his day. And that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today."
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"She, who was bored almost to agony, and who had nothing at all to do, she had not time to think even, seriously, of anything. Time being, after all, only the current of the soul in its flow."
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