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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

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The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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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. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote. ↗

— Philip Levine

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But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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