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It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.
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There was among the tribes in the fighting zone a nervous enthusiasm common, I suppose, to all national risings, but strangely disquieting to one from a land so long delivered that national freedom had become like the water in our mouths, tasteless.
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Off the white town hung between the blazing sky and its reflection in the mirage that swept and rolled over the wide lagoon, then the heat of Arabia came to like a drawn sword and smote us speechless.
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We pay for these things too much in honour and in innocent lives.
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We had deluded ourselves that perhaps peace might find the Arabs able, unhelped and untaught, to defend themselves with paper tools. Meanwhile we glozed our fraud by conducting their necessary war purely and cheaply. But now this gloss had gone from me. Chargeable against my conceit were the causeless, ineffectual deaths of Hesa. My will had gone and I feared to be alone, lest the winds of circumstance, or power, or lust, blow my empty soul away.
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Since the adventure some of those who worked with me have buried themselves in the shallow grave of public duty.
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My will had gone and I feared to be alone, lest the winds of circumstance, or power, or lust, blow my empty soul away.
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Some of the speed and secrecy of our victory, and its regularity, might perhaps be ascribed to this double endowment’s offsetting and emphasizing the rare feature that from end to end of it there was nothing female in the Arab movement, but the camels.
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I was unable to take the professional view that all successful actions were gains. Our rebels were not materials, like soldiers, but friends of ours, trusting our leadership. We were not in command nationally, but by invitation; and our men were volunteers, individuals, local men, relatives, so that a death was a personal sorrow to many in the army. Even from a purely military point of view the assault seemed to me a blunder.
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The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books.
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It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation.
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The beginning and ending of the secret of handling Arabs is unremitting study of them.
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Life in mass was sensual only, to be lived and loved in its extremity. There could be no rest-houses for revolt, no dividend of joy paid out. Its spirit was accretive, to endure as far as the senses would endure, and to use each such advance as base for further adventure, deeper privation, sharper pain. Sense could not reach back or forward. A felt emotion was a conquered emotion, an experience gone dead, which we buried by expressing it.
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All men dream: but nor equally, those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did. I meant to make a new nation, to restore! a lost influence, to give twenty millions of Semites the foundations on which to build an inspired dream-palace of their national thoughts.
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The Beduin of the desert, born and grown up in it, had embraced with all his sour this nakedness too harsh for volunteers, for the reason, felt but inarticulate, that there he found himself indubitably free.
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The vicarious policemanship which was the strongest emotion of Englishmen towards another man’s muddle, in their case was replaced by the instinct to pass by as discreetly far as possible on the other side.
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Beduin proverb that a deserted head showed an ungenerous mind:.
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A thick headcloth forms a good protection against the sun, and if you wear a hat your best Arab friends will be ashamed of you in public.
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Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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Isn’t it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it’s we who led our parents on to bear us, and it’s our unborn children who make our flesh itch.
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I prefer lies to truth, especially when the lies are about me.
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Immorality, I know. Immortality, I cannot judge.
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I haven’t got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has been removed and the area it occupied turned into a public garden, in pursuance of the slum-clearance scheme.
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If I could talk it like Dahoum, you would never be tired of listening to me.
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There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness.
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We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling.
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The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.
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He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.
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Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.
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Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.
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An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance.
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The greatest commander is he whose intuitions most nearly happen.
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Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
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Do not try and do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not win it for them.
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Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can’t all be lion tamers.
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All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
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The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more.
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To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one’s tail.
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The desert is an ocean in which no oar is dipped.
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To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
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I had dropped one form and not taken on the other, and was become like Mohammed’s coffin in our legend, with a resultant feeling of intense loneliness in life, and a contempt, not for other men, but for all they do.
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Half a calamity is better than a whole one.
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.
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If you wear Arab things, wear the best. Clothes are significant among the tribes, and you must wear the appropriate, and appear at ease in them. Dress like a Sherif, if they agree to it.
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To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.
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As long as the arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous and cruel.
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Mankind has had ten-thousand years of experience at fighting and if we must fight, we have no excuse for not fighting well.
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Cling tight to your sense of humour. You will need it every day.
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