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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.

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Moon, Leader, Sun

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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.

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Animal, Race, Decay

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

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Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works of art? The thing becomes an imposition and a weariness at last. Give us things that are alive and flexible, which won't last too long and become an obstruction and a weariness. Even Michelangelo becomes at last a lump and a burden and a bore. It is so hard to see past him.

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Art, Past, Long

D. H. Lawrence, Simonetta de Filippis (2002). “Sketches of Etruscan Places and Other Italian Essays”, p.33, Cambridge University Press

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I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and a harmony of purpose, rather than of personality. I am weary of personality. Let us be easy and impersonal, not forever fingering over our own souls, and the souls of our acquaintances, but trying to create a new life, a new common life, a new complete tree of life from the roots that are within us.

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Life, Relationship, Roots

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I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate.

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Love, Running, Fate

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

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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.

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Depression, Two, Long

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

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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.

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Art, Oneness, Awareness

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

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If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology.

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Cutting, Smell, Psychology

D. H. Lawrence (1956). “The Virgin and the Gipsy”

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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.

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Time, Blow, Wind

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

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

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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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That's it! When you come to know men, that's how they are: too sensitive in the wrong place.

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Men, Sensitive, Know Me

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.205, D. H. Lawrence

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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.

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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.

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Truth, Lying, Feelings

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

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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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The true self is not aware that it is a self. A bird, as it sings, sings itself. But not according to a picture. It has no idea of itself.

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Self, Ideas, Bird

D. H. Lawrence, N. H. Reeve, John Worthen (2005). “Introductions and Reviews”, p.336, Cambridge University Press

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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.

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Heart, Butterfly, Fighting

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

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Lying, Men, Process

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

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Where sanity is there God is.

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God, Sanity

D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.388, ReadHowYouWant.com

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I do esteem individual liberty above everything.

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Liberty, Individual, Esteem

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Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat.
Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.

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Love You, Being In Love, Men

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6697, Delphi Classics

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You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

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Ordinary World, Creative, Virtue

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Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.

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God, Men, Sea

D. H. Lawrence (2006). “The Plumed Serpent: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.105, ReadHowYouWant.com

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When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at that quick moment of time. His painting does not represent the sunflower itself. We shall never know what the sunflower itself is. And the camera will visualize the sunflower far more perfectly than van Gogh can.

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Photography, Men, Sunflower

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8937, Delphi Classics

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Europe is, perhaps, the least worn-out of the continents, because it is the most lived in. A place that is lived in lives.

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Home, Europe, Worn

D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.180, Cambridge University Press

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Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.

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Marriage, Stars, Cosmos

D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.323, Cambridge University Press

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