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The east is not for me--the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes.

D. H. Lawrence

Spiritual, Eye, People

D.H Lawrence (1995). “The Sayings of D. H. Lawrence”, p.43, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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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?

D. H. Lawrence

What Matters, Paris, Joy

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She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.

D. H. Lawrence

Able, Denied

D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.8, Cambridge University Press

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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

D. H. Lawrence

Artist, Literature, Never Trust

Studies in Classic American Literature (1923) ch. 1

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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.

D. H. Lawrence

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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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.

D. H. Lawrence

Stars, Night, Darkness

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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.

D. H. Lawrence

Nature, Kissing, Nymphs

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

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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.

D. H. Lawrence

Balance, Novelists, Thumbs

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

D. H. Lawrence

Should Have, Feels, Realising

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

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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.

D. H. Lawrence

Art, Sunday, Dark

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

D. H. Lawrence

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

D. H. Lawrence

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.

D. H. Lawrence

Gay, Care, Thee

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

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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.

D. H. Lawrence

Religious, Believe, Men

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

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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.

D. H. Lawrence

Book, Men, Fullness Of Life

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

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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.

D. H. Lawrence

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.

D. H. Lawrence

Angel, Sides

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

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

D. H. Lawrence

People, Soul, Literature

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

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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.

D. H. Lawrence

Knowledge, Eye, Dark

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

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Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending.

D. H. Lawrence

Men, Attending, Wholeness

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

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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.

D. H. Lawrence

Love, Morning, Swimming

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

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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.

D. H. Lawrence

Education, Ignorance, Knowledge

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

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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.

D. H. Lawrence

Art, Doe, Outsiders

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

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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.

D. H. Lawrence

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

D. H. Lawrence

History, Body, Eras

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