#conscious

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

#end #get #getting #itself #nowhere

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

— David Herbert Lawrence

#consciousness #death #even #forgetting #homogeneous

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

— David Herbert Lawrence

#always #chains #freedom #freest #most

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

#anything #assert #beliefs #body #consciousness

Teenagers especially are very, very conscious about what is hip and what is lame and what is square and what is out and what is in, you know. And, I mean, I grew up right there in the middle of a black culture. And I knew dead-on what it was. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

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The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#class #consciousness #countries #develop #effort

I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious. ↗

— David Letterman

#i #just #make #trying #unconscious

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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