"If we had reverence for our life, our……" — D. H. Lawrence
"If we had reverence for our life, our life would take at once religious form. But as it is, in our filthy irreverence, it remains a disgusting slough, where each one of us goes so thoroughly disguised in dirt that we are all alike and indistinguishab"
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441 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence
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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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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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