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The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

~D. H. Lawrence

Topics: Brings Closets Democracy Dislike Down Electric Else Everything Just Level Light Mere More Nothing Prices See Vulgar Wages Water I See

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

~D. H. Lawrence

Topics: Fates Geniuses Great Mostly Mothers Sad Say They Say

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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

~D. H. Lawrence

Topics: Bites Curse Deep Literature Snare Toil

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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

~D. H. Lawrence

Topics: Art Between Blood Bones Creative Design Dimension Elements Eyes Flux Fourth Invent Recognition Recognize Relation Things Various Well You Your

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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

~D. H. Lawrence

Topics: Collective Madness Money Our Vast

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Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

~D. H. Lawrence

Topics: Attempt Blood Deep Description Experience Explanation Going Human Human Experience Mental Myth Purpose Soul Too Which Whole

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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.

~D. H. Lawrence

Topics: Arises Beauty Consciousness Goes Inseparable Intelligence Intuition Life Like Out Sex Which

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The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

~D. H. Lawrence

Topics: Dead Goddess Going Great Lump Me Men Moon Past She Splendid Tell You

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

~D. H. Lawrence

Topics: Always Chains Freedom Men Most Rattling Shout Unconscious

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

~D. H. Lawrence

Topics: Dry Got Her Rule She Stick Streak Tiny Woman

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: September 11th, 1885

Died: March 2nd, 1930

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