Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works of art? The thing becomes an imposition and a weariness at last. Give us things that are alive and flexible, which won't last too long and become an obstruction and a weariness. Even Michelangelo becomes at last a lump and a burden and a bore. It is so hard to see past him. - D.H. Lawrence Quotes
Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works of art? The thing becomes an imposition and a weariness at last. Give us things that are alive and flexible, which won't last too long and become an obstruction and a weariness. Even Michelangelo becomes at last a lump and a burden and a bore. It is so hard to see past him. D.H. Lawrence
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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar. - D.H. Lawrence Quotes

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies--thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us. - D.H. Lawrence Quotes

I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies--thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere. - D.H. Lawrence Quotes

When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

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In every living thing there is the desire for love. - D.H. Lawrence Quotes

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

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We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known. - D.H. Lawrence Quotes

We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do--it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory b

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