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We live at the edge of the world, so we live on the edge. Kiwis will always sacrifice money and security for adventure and challenge. ↗

— Lucy Lawless

#always #challenge #edge #live #money

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

#evil #makes #passionate #refuse #rotten

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

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

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#beauty #bread #human #human soul #more

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#americas #columbus #conquer #discover #great

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#crammed #know #knowing #laughs #merely

Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#achieved #become #having #himself #his

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. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#blind #craving #created #creating #driving

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