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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Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.

Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.

Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies...

Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies...

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't...

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't...

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen...

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen...

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving...

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving...

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than...

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than...

Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going...

The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going...

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with...

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with...

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...

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...

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't...

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't...

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved....

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved....

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it...

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it...

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.

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of...

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of...

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...

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur...

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur...

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

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