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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#abnormal #absorb #because #craving #eternal

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

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#got #harlot #hasn #her #rule

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#conclusion #death #great #only #passion

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#any #day #fish #give #had

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#change #choose #domination #liberty #master

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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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. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#dreaming #gone #mad #men #sleep

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#always #complete #final #gathered #man