"It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing."
-David Herbert Lawrence
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"The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.“
-David Herbert Lawrence
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"In every living thing there is the desire for love."
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"The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just."
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"Be still when you have nothing to say when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."
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"People always make war when they say they love peace."
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"You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere."
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