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The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.

D. H. Lawrence

Pain, Artist, Might

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Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.

D. H. Lawrence

Men, Weak Man, People

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8467, Delphi Classics

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Mystic equality lies in abstraction, not in having or in doing, which are processes. In function and process, one man, one part, must of necessity be subordinate to another. It is a condition of being.

D. H. Lawrence

Lying, Men, Process

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Women in Love”, p.219, Xist Publishing

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Melville had to fight, fight against the existing world, against his own very self. Only he would never quite put the knife in the heart of his paradisal ideal. Somehow, somewhere, somewhen, love should be a fulfillment, and life should be a thing of bliss. That was his fixed ideal. Fata Morgana. That was the pin he tortured himself on, like a pinned-down butterfly.

D. H. Lawrence

Heart, Butterfly, Fighting

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8283, Delphi Classics

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Paris was sad. One of the saddest towns: weary of its now-mechanical sensuality, weary of the tension of money, money, money, weary even of resentment and conceit, just weary to death, and still not sufficiently Americanized or Londonized to hide the weariness under a mechanical jig-jig-jig!

D. H. Lawrence

Paris, Towns, Resentment

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3913, Delphi Classics

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He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the moon of our non-being.

D. H. Lawrence

Moon, Leader, Sun

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For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are.

D. H. Lawrence

Stars, Intuition, Mind

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.10012, Delphi Classics

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If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail.

D. H. Lawrence

Trying, Nails, Get Up

'Phoenix' (1936) 'Morality and the Novel'

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Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.

D. H. Lawrence

Travel, Moving, Tourism

D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Sea and Sardinia”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

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Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, the belly-wriggling invertebrates, the miserable soddingrotters, the flaming sods, the sniveling, dribbling, dithering, palsied, pulse-less lot that make up England today. They've got white of egg in their veins, and their spunk is that watery it's a marvel they can breed.

D. H. Lawrence

Sarcastic, Eggs, White

Letter to Edward Garnett, 3 July 1912, in Collected Letters (1962) vol. 1, p. 134

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We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America -- as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and we're rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong.

D. H. Lawrence

Running, Mistake, Moving

D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.237, Cambridge University Press

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Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling.

D. H. Lawrence

Truth, Lying, Feelings

D. H. Lawrence (2008). “The Rainbow”, p.295, OUP Oxford

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The elephant, the huge old beast,
is slow to mate

D. H. Lawrence

Elephants, Beast, Mates

D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.219, ReadHowYouWant.com

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It is our business to go as we are impelled.

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Business

D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

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He reflected on the decay of mankind-the decline of the human race into folly and weakness and rottenness. 'Be a good animal, true to your animal instinct' was his motto.

D. H. Lawrence

Animal, Race, Decay

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “The White Peacock: Top Novelist Focus”, p.168, 谷月社

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In America the chief accusation seems to be one of "Eroticism." This is odd, rather puzzling to my mind. Which Eros? Eros of the jaunty "amours," or Eros of the sacred mysteries? And if the latter, why accuse, why not respect, even venerate?

D. H. Lawrence

Love, Sex, America

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9267, Delphi Classics

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For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done.

D. H. Lawrence

Mean, Done, Sake

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Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time.

D. H. Lawrence

Time, Blow, Wind

"Song of a Man Who Has Come Through" l. 1 (1920)

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They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

D. H. Lawrence

Mother, Fate, Genius

D. H. Lawrence (2006). “Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree.

D. H. Lawrence

Marriage, Sphinx, Decree

D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.216, Cambridge University Press

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But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff's edge, like Sappho into the sea.

D. H. Lawrence

Sea, Cliffs, Seeds

D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity, mechanism, materialism.

D. H. Lawrence

Reality, Creative, Departed

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9091, Delphi Classics

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The map appears to us more real than the land.

D. H. Lawrence

Real, Reality, Land

D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.30, Cambridge University Press

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Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.

D. H. Lawrence

Art, Oneness, Awareness

"Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence".

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She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it was insane. Civilized society is insane. Money and so-called love are its two great manias; money a long way first. The individual asserts himself in his disconnected insanity in these two modes: money and love.

D. H. Lawrence

Depression, Two, Long

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3771, Delphi Classics

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