“Augustine said that God created the universe new every day: and to the living, emotional soul, this is true.”

— D.H. Lawrence

A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover (1929)
Context: Augustine said that God created the universe new every day: and to the living, emotional soul, this is true. Every dawn dawns upon an entirely new universe, every Easter lights up an entirely new glory of a new world opening in utterly new flower. And the soul of man and the soul of woman is new in the same way, with the infinite delight of life and the ever-newness of life. So a man and a woman are new to one another throughout a life-time, in the rhythm of marriage that matches the rhythm of the year.

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English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary crit… 1885–1930

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