Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
David Herbert Lawrence
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- Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
- Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
- The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
- The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
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