

“And when the dawn comes creeping in,
Cautiously I shall raise
Myself to watch the daylight win.”
― The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence
Cautiously I shall raise
Myself to watch the daylight win.”
― The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence

“Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m.”
― Maskerade
― Maskerade
“The weather. It's like a poem. Where each word is more than one thing at once and everything's a metaphor. The meaning condensed into rhythm and sound and the spaces between sentences. It's all intense and sharp, like the cold and the wind.”
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“Many things are worse than defeat, and compromise with evil is one of them.”
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“It costs me less in every sense to incur the penalty of disobedience to the State than it would to obey.”
― Civil Disobedience
― Civil Disobedience
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