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• The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination.

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  Beautiful, Imagination, World

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.42, Cambridge University Press

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• The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs.

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  Love, Life, Sex

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• The living moment is everything.

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  Time, Self Help, Moments

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• Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the matter with us: we are bleeding at the roots because we are cut off from the earth and sun and stars. Love has become a grinning mockery because, poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on the Tree of Life and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilized vase on the table.

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  Stars, Cutting, Roots

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• There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.

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  Sleep, Three, Drink

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.1099, Book House

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• When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

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  Inspirational, Land, Over The Edge

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Centaur Classics)”, p.983, D. H. Lawrence

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• You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.

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  Thrill, Ends, Live By

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.601, Cambridge University Press

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• People always make war when they say they love peace.

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  Love, Peace, War

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.492, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

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  Animal, Men, World

  Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923) "Mountain Lion"

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• Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.

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  Real, People, Looks

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3928, Delphi Classics

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• Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

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  Literature, Consciousness, Ends

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.93, Cambridge University Press

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• I never knew how soothing trees are-many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being.

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  Nature, Tree, Sunlight

  D. H. Lawrence (2007). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence: October 1916-June 1921”, p.224, Cambridge University Press

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• When love enters, the whole spiritual constitution of a man changes, is filled with the Holy Ghost, and almost his form is altered.

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  Love, Spiritual, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2015). “D. H. Lawrence The Dover Reader”, p.34, Courier Dover Publications

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• The great crime which the moneyed classes and promoters of industry committed in the palmy Victorian days was the condemning of the workers to ugliness, ugliness, ugliness: meanness and formless and ugly surroundings, ugly ideals, ugly religion, ugly hope, ugly love, ugly clothes, ugly furniture, ugly houses, ugly relationship between workers and employers. The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

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  Class, Clothes, House

  D. H. Lawrence (2017). “Phoenix: the Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence by D. H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.138, Delphi Classics (Parts Edition) via PublishDrive

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• Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

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  Peace, Life And Love, Work

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8192, Delphi Classics

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• Life is beautiful, as long as it consumes you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is gorgeous, glorious. It's when you burn a slow fire and save fuel, that life's not worth having.

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  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.

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  Morning, Stars, Men

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Centaur Classics)”, p.2504, D. H. Lawrence

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• In every living thing there is the desire for love.

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  Love, Romance, Desire

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.331, Cambridge University Press

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• Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

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  Beautiful, Passion, Literature

  1922 Fantasia of the Unconscious, ch.15.

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• The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

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  Art, Men, Relation

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• I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

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  Inspirational, Motivation, Regret

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• Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some diving.

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  Inspirational, Men, Self

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• For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

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  Life, Flower, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.149, Cambridge University Press

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• Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness.

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  Mistake, Men, Needs

  D. H. Lawrence (1994). “D.H. Lawrence: Selected Works”, Gramercy

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• The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.

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  Principles, Life Is, Forfeit

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.110, Cambridge University Press

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