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• The whole question of pornography seems to me a question of secrecy. Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things. Secrecy has always an element of fear in it, amounting very often to hate. Modesty is gentle and reserved. Today, modesty is thrown to the winds, even in the presence of the grey guardians. But secrecy is hugged, being a vice in itself. And the attitude of the grey ones is: Dear young ladies, you may abandon all modesty, so long as you hug your dirty little secret.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Attitude, Hate, Dirty

  D. H. Lawrence (1966). “Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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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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• 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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• The unhappiness of a wife with a good husband is much more devastating than the unhappiness of a wife with a bad husband.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Husband, Wife, Unhappiness

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.187, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Air, Water

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3924, Delphi Classics

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• The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Struggle, Joy, Needs

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• Art- speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day and that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day, and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Plato, Liars

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.14, Cambridge University Press

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• That is the real pivot of all bourgeois consciousness in all countries: fear and hate of the instinctive, intuitional, procreativebody in man or woman. But of course this fear and hate had to take on a righteous appearance, so it became moral, said that the instincts, intuitions and all the activities of the procreative body were evil, and promised a reward for their suppression. That is the great clue to bourgeois psychology: the reward business.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Country, Sex, Real

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8966, Delphi Classics

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• For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another without necessarily belonging to one another.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Moments, Standards, Young

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3700, Delphi Classics

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• In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up, from drink you become sober, and from travel you come home again. And then where are you? No, the two sovereign remedies for dullness are love or a crusade.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Home, Sleep, Two

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9406, Delphi Classics

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• If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!

  D. H. Lawrence

  Women, Fame, Donkey

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.570, Book House

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• The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Strong, Responsibility, Wish

  D. H. Lawrence (2006). “Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Self, Suffering

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• Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Lying, Tree, Humanity

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.1009, Book House

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• Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Friendship, Marriage, Passion

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9049, Delphi Classics

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• The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Past, Sea, Age

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.129, Cambridge University Press

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• The grim frost is at hand, when apples will fall thick, almost thunderous, on the hardened earth.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fall, Winter, Hands

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• Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;
  Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see
  A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings
  And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she
  sings.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Music, Mother, Children

  D.H. Lawrence (1961). “Selected Poems”

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• Is our day of creative life finished? Does there remain to us only the strange, awful afterwards of the knowledge in dissolution,the African knowledge, but different for us, who are blond and blue-eyed from the north?.... There was another way, the way of freedom. There was the paradisal entry into pure, single beingwhich accepted the obligation of the permanent connection with others, and with the other, submits to the yoke and leash of love, but never forfeits its own proud individual singleness, even while it loves and yields.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Freedom, Yield

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• It is only when men lose their contact with this eternal life-flame, and become merely personal, things in themselves, instead ofthings kindled in the flame, that the fight between man and woman begins.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fighting, Men, Flames

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• So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Long, Matter, Miserable

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.743, Delphi Classics

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• The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Egypt, Pyramids, Lasts

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• In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Race, Dust, Civilization

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• All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Knowing, Laughing, Atheism

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.132, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Whatever life may be, and whatever horror men have made of it, the world is a lovely place, a magic place, something to marvel over. The world is an amazing place.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Lovely, Magic

  D. H. Lawrence, John Worthen (1981). “The Lost Girl”, p.299, Cambridge University Press

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