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I've never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself.

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Sorry, Wild Things, Feels

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The Aztec gods and goddesses are, as far as we have known anything about them, an unlovely and unlovable lot. In their myths there is no grace or charm, no poetry. Only this perpetual grudge, grudge, grudging, one god grudging another, the gods grudging men their existence, and men grudging the animals. The goddess of love is goddess of dirt and prostitution, a dirt-eater, a horror, without a touch of tenderness.

D. H. Lawrence

Animal, Love Is, Men

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.7472, Delphi Classics

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It's hard to ravish a tin of sardines.

D. H. Lawrence

Tin, Sardines, Hard

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No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.

D. H. Lawrence

Being Yourself, Being Single, Cosmos

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8420, Delphi Classics

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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.

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War, Home, Heart

D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.233, Cambridge University Press

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The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were gone, and the lights of the towns and villages glittered in silence.

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Light, Silence, Darkness

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Sons and Lovers: Top Novelist Focus”, p.124, 谷月社

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I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I'm sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual - we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. I'm sure that is entirely wrong.

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Moving, Air, Looks

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Centaur Classics)”, p.1033, D. H. Lawrence

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It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if se adored him too much, then she would lose herself, become effaced, and she did not want to be effaced, a slave, like a savage woman. She must not become a slave. She feared her adoration, yet she would not at once fight against it.

D. H. Lawrence

Passion, Fighting, Savages

Lawrence, D. H. (2014). “Lady Chatterley's Lover”, p.177, Read Books Ltd

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I should like [people] to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness. and They only like to do the collective thing.

D. H. Lawrence

People, Society, Individualism

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.947, Book House

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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

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Technology, Men, Chains That Bind

D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.17, Cambridge University Press

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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.

D. H. Lawrence

Patience, Waiting, Forte

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3793, Delphi Classics

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Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.

D. H. Lawrence

Life, Real, Cynical

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Sons and Lovers: Top Novelist Focus”, p.7, 谷月社

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The real trouble about women is that they must always go on trying to adapt themselves to men's theories of women, as they alwayshave done. When a woman is thoroughly herself, she is being what her type of man wants her to be. When a woman is hysterical it's because she doesn't quite know what to be, which pattern to follow, which man's picture of woman to live up to.

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Real, Women, Trying

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9366, Delphi Classics

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Now it is autumn and the falling fruit
and the long journey towards oblivion.
The apples falling like great drops of dew
to bruise themselves an exit from themselves.

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Death, Fall, Autumn

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6883, Delphi Classics

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The true unconscious is the well-head, the fountain of real motivity. The sex of which Adam and Eve became conscious derived fromthe very God who bade them be not conscious of it.

D. H. Lawrence

Sex, Real, Conscious

D.H. Lawrence (2015). “D. H. Lawrence The Dover Reader”, p.472, Courier Dover Publications

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For even satire is a form of sympathy. It is the way our sympathy flows and recoils that really determines our lives. And here lies the vast importance of the novel, properly handled. It can inform and lead into new places our sympathy away in recoil from things gone dead. Therefore the novel, properly handled, can reveal the most secret places of life: for it is the passional secret places of life, above all, that the tide of sensitive awareness needs to ebb and flow, cleansing and freshening.

D. H. Lawrence

Sympathy, Lying, Ebb And Flow

D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.101, Cambridge University Press

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I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

D. H. Lawrence

Christian, Past, Greatness

D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.200, Cambridge University Press

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And still I look for the men who will dare to be
roses of England
wild roses of England
men who are wild roses of England
with metal thorns, beware!
but still more brave and still more rare
the courage of rosiness in a cabbage world
fragrance of roses in a stale stink of lies
rose-leaves to bewilder the clever fools
and rose-briars to strangle the machine.

D. H. Lawrence

Clever, Lying, Men

D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.214, ReadHowYouWant.com

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Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking.

D. H. Lawrence

Morning, Father, Book

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.1314, Delphi Classics

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The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire.

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Book, Tree, Generations

D. H. Lawrence (1995). “The Rainbow”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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The acrid scents of autumn, Reminiscent of slinking beasts, make me fear

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Autumn, Scent, November

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4223, Delphi Classics

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To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and is gone.

D. H. Lawrence

Struggle, Flower, Book

D. H. Lawrence, N. H. Reeve, John Worthen (2005). “Introductions and Reviews”, p.78, Cambridge University Press

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It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show.

D. H. Lawrence

Men, Beard, Neckties

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4166, Delphi Classics

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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.

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Cosmos, Mankind, Rhythm

D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.328, Cambridge University Press

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It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into a tangled mass, till they could crowd no more, and the plant was dying. Now quietly, subtly, she was unravelling the tangle of his consciousness and hers, breaking the threads gently, one by one, with patience and impatience to get clear.

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Roots, Tangled, Dying

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3759, Delphi Classics

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