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

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D. H. Lawrence: 'One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.'

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D. H. Lawrence: 'Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.'

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D. H. Lawrence: 'One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.'

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D. H. Lawrence: 'The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.'

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D. H. Lawrence: 'God doesn't know things. He is things.'

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D. H. Lawrence: 'Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.'

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D. H. Lawrence: 'I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.'

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D. H. Lawrence: 'Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.'

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D. H. Lawrence: 'One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.'

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D. H. Lawrence: 'The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.'

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D. H. Lawrence: 'Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.'

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D. H. Lawrence: 'I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.'

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D. H. Lawrence: 'Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.'

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D. H. Lawrence: 'Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.'

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Thomas Hobbes: 'Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.'

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Thomas Hobbes: 'War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.'

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Thomas Hobbes: 'A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.'

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Thomas Hobbes: 'Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.'

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Thomas Hobbes: 'They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.'

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