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All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

D. H. Lawrence

Memories, Reality, Atheism

D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.247, Cambridge University Press

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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other, knits the sleep, so that it takes the body and soul completely in its healing.

D. H. Lawrence

Healing, Sleep, Perfect

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Sons and Lovers: Top Novelist Focus”, p.74, 谷月社

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Most fatal, most hateful of all things is bullying.... Sensual bullying of course is fairly easily detected. What is more dangerous is ideal bullying. Bullying people into what is ideally good for them.

D. H. Lawrence

Education, Bullying, People

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8067, Delphi Classics

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When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.

D. H. Lawrence

Self, Games, People

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Women in Love”, p.51, Xist Publishing

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Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the nothingness and the undifferentiated mass, to make something of herself! But what? In the obscurity and pathlessness to take a direction! But whither? How take even one step? And yet, how stand still? This was torment indeed, to inherit the responsibility of one’s own life.

D. H. Lawrence

Growing Up, Responsibility, Obscurity

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Centaur Classics)”, p.849, D. H. Lawrence

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Whatever a human being makes and makes live, it lives because of the life he puts into it.

D. H. Lawrence

Humans, Human Beings

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A circle swoop, and a quick parabola under the bridge arches
Where light pushes through;
A sudden turning upon itself of a thing in the air.
A dip to the water.

D. H. Lawrence

Air, Bridges, Circles

D.H. Lawrence (2016). “Snake and Other Poems”, p.50, Courier Dover Publications

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Persephone herself is but a voice
or a darkness invisible enfolded in the deeper dark
of the arms Plutonic, and pierced with the passion of dense gloom,
among the splendor of torches of darkness, shedding darkness on the
lost bride and her groom.

D. H. Lawrence

Passion, Dark, Voice

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6848, Delphi Classics

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I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

D. H. Lawrence

Dog, Steps, Invincible

D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.352, Cambridge University Press

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They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.

D. H. Lawrence

Blood, Sea, Aging

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6844, Delphi Classics

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The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.

D. H. Lawrence

Anger, Justice, Judgement

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8192, Delphi Classics

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What's that as flies without wings, your ladyship? Time! Time!

D. H. Lawrence

Time, Wings

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.288, D. H. Lawrence

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Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

D. H. Lawrence

War, Literature, Propaganda

D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.153, ReadHowYouWant.com

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In my very own self, I am part of my family.

D. H. Lawrence

Self, My Family

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The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close. To know is to lose.

D. H. Lawrence

Change, Knowledge, Loss

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Fantasia of the Unconscious: Top Novelist Focus”, p.44, 谷月社

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Most men have a deadness in them that frightens me so because of my own deadness. Why can't men get their life straight, like St.Mawr, and then think? Why can't they think quick, mother: quick as a woman: only farther than we do?

D. H. Lawrence

Death, Mother, Women

D. H. Lawrence, Brian Finney (1983). “St Mawr and Other Stories”, p.61, Cambridge University Press

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Personality and mind, like moustaches, belong to a certain age. They are a deformity in a child.... Leave his sensibilities, his emotions, his spirit, and his mind severely alone. There is the devil in mothers, that they must provoke personalresponse from their infants.

D. H. Lawrence

Education, Mother, Children

D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.121, Cambridge University Press

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Be careful, then, and be gentle about death. For it is hard to die, it is difficult to go through the door, even when it opens.

D. H. Lawrence

Doors, Difficult, Be Careful

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6887, Delphi Classics

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When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.

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Passion, Littles, Magnificent

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3797, Delphi Classics

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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

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Birthday, Tragedy, Aging

Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) ch. 1

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Why were we driven out of Paradise? Why did we fall into this gnawing disease of unappeasable dissatisfaction? Not because we sinned. Ah, no. All the animals in Paradise enjoyed the sensual passion of coition. Not because we sinned. But because we got sex into our head.

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Sex, Fall, Passion

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Fantasia of the Unconscious: Top Novelist Focus”, p.53, 谷月社

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Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose.

D. H. Lawrence

Believe, Men, Community

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8184, Delphi Classics

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I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. My soul knows that I am part of the human race, my soul is an organic part of the great human race, as my spirit is part of my nation. In my own very self, I am part of my family.

D. H. Lawrence

Family, Eye, Race

D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.149, Cambridge University Press

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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

D. H. Lawrence

Cities, Tree, Alive

D. H. Lawrence, Brian Finney (1983). “St Mawr and Other Stories”, p.80, Cambridge University Press

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What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another.

D. H. Lawrence

Laughter, Men, Genius

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8702, Delphi Classics

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Born: September 11, 1885
Died: March 2, 1930
Occupation: Novelist
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