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" Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again. "
D. H. Lawrence
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" All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true. "
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" Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes. "
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" We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. "
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" 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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" Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition. "
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" 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. "
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