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  • So as long as you can forget your body you are happy and the moment you begin to be aware of your body, you are wretched. So if civilization is any good, it has to help us forget our bodies, and then time passes happily without our knowing it. Help us get rid of our bodies altogether.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Civilization Quotes , Knowing Quotes
  • The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Civilization Quotes