Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.
D. H. LawrenceThe human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
D. H. LawrenceThe near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.
D. H. LawrenceThe Spirit of Place [does not] exert its full influence upon a newcomer until the old inhabitant is dead or absorbed. So America.... The moment the last nuclei of Red [Indian] life break up in America, then the white men will have to reckon with the full force of the demon of the continent.
D. H. Lawrence