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Rather Quotes by D. H. Lawrence
- The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
- I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and…
- We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America -- as far as we…
- The near end of the street was rather dark and had mostly vegetable shops. Abundance of vegetables - piles of white and green fennel, like…
- To our senses, the elements are four and have ever been, and will ever be for they are the elements of life, of poetry, and…
- In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up,…
- What a frail, easily hurt, rather pathetic thing a human body is, naked; somehow a little unfinished, incomplete!
- Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to…
- I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness…
- One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to…
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- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
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- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong