D. H. Lawrence Quotes About Human Beings
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the more i live, the more i realize what strange creatures human beings are. some of them might just as well have a hundred legs, like a centipede, or six, like a lobster. the human consistency and dignity one has been led to expect from one's fellow-man seem actually non-existent. one doubts if they exist to any startling degree even in oneself.
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Whatever a human being makes and makes live, it lives because of the life he puts into it.
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Poe tried alcohol, and any drug he could lay his hands on. He also tried any human being he could lay his hands on.
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Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.
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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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Whatever God there is is slowly eliminating the guts and alimentary system from the human being, to evolve a higher, more spiritual being.
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Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater the peril, the greater the disaster. Because to place absolute trust on another human being is in itself a disaster, both ways, since each human being is a ship that must sail its own course, even if it go in company with another ship.... And yet, love is the greatest thing between human beings.
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