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• He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.

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  Oneself, Conscience

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.151, D. H. Lawrence

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• I don't like your miserable lonely single front name. It is so limited, so meager; it has no versatility; it is weighted down with the sense of responsibility; it is worn threadbare with much use; it is as bad as having only one jacket and one hat; it is like having only one relation, one blood relation, in the world. Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.

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  Lonely, Children, Responsibility

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• Death is ... a travelling asunder into elemental chaos. And from the elemental chaos all is cast forth again into creation. Therefore death also is but a cul-de-sac, a melting-pot.

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  Melting, Chaos, Creation

  D. H. Lawrence (2017). “Phoenix: the Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence by D. H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.151, Delphi Classics (Parts Edition) via PublishDrive

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• Yea, Paris is a festive ton -- a festive Ton for all! Skate o'er on joy -- Thin crust of gilded, polished joy! What matters it if Hell's beneath?

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  What Matters, Paris, Joy

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• Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.

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  Death, Journey, Ships

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

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• Sunday night meant, in the dark, wintry, rainy Midlands ... anywhere where two creatures might stand and squeeze together and spoon.... Spooning was a fine art, whereas kissing and cuddling are calf-processes.

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  Art, Sunday, Dark

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.2093, Delphi Classics

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• Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending.

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  Men, Attending, Wholeness

  D. H. Lawrence (1962). “The Art of Perversity”

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• One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

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  Laughter, Laughing, Brutality

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.181, Cambridge University Press

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• If it be not true to me, What care I how true it be.. Though it be not true to thee, It's gay and gospel truth to me.

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  Gay, Care, Thee

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Fantasia of the Unconcious: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull down the balance to his own predilection, that is immorality.

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  Balance, Novelists, Thumbs

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8926, Delphi Classics

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• Night, in which everything was lost, went reaching out, beyond stars and sun. Stars and sun, a few bright grains, went spiraling round for terror, and holding each other in embrace, there in a darkness that outpassed them all, and left them tiny and daunted. So much, and himself, infinitesimal, at the core of nothingness, and yet not nothing.

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  Stars, Night, Darkness

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• We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.

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  Education, Ignorance, Knowledge

  D. H. Lawrence (2006). “Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious”, p.112, Courier Corporation

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• The history of our era is the nauseating and repulsive history of the crucifixion of the procreative body for the glorification ofthe spirit.

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  History, Body, Eras

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• Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

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  Nature, Kissing, Nymphs

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

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• the more i live, the more i realize what strange creatures human beings are. some of them might just as well have a hundred legs, like a centipede, or six, like a lobster. the human consistency and dignity one has been led to expect from one's fellow-man seem actually non-existent. one doubts if they exist to any startling degree even in oneself.

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  Men, Consistency, Doubt

  D H Lawrence, Daniel Defoe (2012). “Stop What You’re Doing and Read…Banned Books: Lady Chatterley's Lover & Moll Flanders”, p.267, Random House

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• I have a very great fear of love. It is so personal. Let each bird fly with its own wings, and each fish swim its own course.--Morning brings more than love. And I want to be true to the morning.

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  Love, Morning, Swimming

  D. H. Lawrence (1995). “The Plumed Serpent”, p.372, Wordsworth Editions

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• Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration.

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  Inspiration, Passion, Purpose

  D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.179, Cambridge University Press

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• Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

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  Angel, Sides

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.232, Cambridge University Press

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• Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom.

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  Religious, Believe, Men

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

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• One should feel inside oneself for right and wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God.

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  Should Have, Feels, Realising

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.530, Book House

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• I would like [the working man] to give me back books and newspapers and theories. And I would like to give him back, in return, his old insouciance, and rich, original spontaneity and fullness of life.

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  Book, Men, Fullness Of Life

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Fantasia of the Unconscious”, p.143, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• What is the knocking? What is the knocking at the door in the night? It is somebody who wants to do us harm. No, no, it is the three strange angels. Admit them, admit them.

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  Angel, Night, Doors

  David Herbert Lawrence (1994). “The Works of D.H. Lawrence: With an Introduction and Bibliography”, p.195, Wordsworth Editions

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• What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.

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  Art, Doe, Outsiders

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Centaur Classics)”, p.1296, D. H. Lawrence

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• That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.

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  Knowledge, Eye, Dark

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8238, Delphi Classics

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• That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.

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  People, Soul, Literature

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8753, Delphi Classics

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