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

David Herbert Lawrence · Nature

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David Herbert Lawrence

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.

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David Herbert Lawrence

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

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David Herbert Lawrence

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

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David Herbert Lawrence

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

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