All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

Quote by David Herbert Lawrence

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One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and...

One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and...

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

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

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

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

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

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be...

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be...

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling...

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling...

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.

Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.

Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.

I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those...

I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those...

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is...

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is...

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be...

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be...

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in...

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in...

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty...

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty...

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is...

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is...

California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the...

California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the...