D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence

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"I believe a man is born first unto himself-for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers."	Happiness, Humor, Joy
"We and the cosmos are one. The cosmos is a vast body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great gleaming nerve-centre from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that Saturn has over us or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time... Now all this is literally true, as men knew in the great past and as they will know again."	Art, Excellence, History
"We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive - and part of the living, incarnate cosmos."	Art, Life
"I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets."	Desires, Life, Regret
"Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration."	Happiness, Joy, Law
"Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved."	Life
"The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread."	Beauty, Men, Reading
"hy doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present?"	History, Patience
"The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them."	Age, Courage, Excellence

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