"For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the……" — D. H. Lawrence
"For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are."
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D. H. Lawrence
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441 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will…
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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Never trust the teller, trust the tale.
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But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out…
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Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the…
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And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets…
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They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most…
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That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.
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Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.
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Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.
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We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
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