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• The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Inspirational, Beauty, Soul

  "The Sayings of D. H. Lawrence".

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• My belief is in the blood and flesh as being wiser than the intellect. The body-unconsciou s is where life bubbles up in us. It is how we know that we are alive, alive to the depths of our souls and in touch somewhere with the vivid reaches of the cosmos.

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  Blood, Soul, Depth

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• Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

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  Hard Work, Sky, Age

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3688, Delphi Classics

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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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• We have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

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  Magic, Magic Of Life, Buried

  D. H. Lawrence, Keith Sagar (1986). “Selected Poetry”, ePenguin

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• Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.

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  Civilization, Giving, Spending

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3954, Delphi Classics

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• America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.

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  Life, Real, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.10167, Delphi Classics

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• The dead don't die. They look on and help.

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  Death, Funeral, Looks

  Letter to J. Middleton Murry, 2 February 1923, in H. T. Moore (ed.) 'Collected Letters of D. H. Lawrence' (1962) vol. 2

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• Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.

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  Real, Society, Purpose

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• In masturbation there is nothing but loss. There is no reciprocity. There is merely the spending away of a certain force, and no return. The body remains, in a sense, a corpse, after the act of self-abuse. There is no change, only deadening. There is what we call dead loss. And this is not the case in any act of sexual intercourse between two people. Two people may destroy one another in sex. But they cannot just produce the null effect of masturbation.

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  Sex, Loss, Self

  D. H. Lawrence (2017). “Phoenix: the Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence by D. H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.177, Delphi Classics (Parts Edition) via PublishDrive

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• What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.

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  Intuition, Desire, Instinct

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.206, Cambridge University Press

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• If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

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  Women, Literature, Dry

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8702, Delphi Classics

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• Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.

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  Beauty, Patterns, Beautiful Soul

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.146, Cambridge University Press

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• We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.

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  Touched, Known

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.131, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

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  Water, Mind, Glitter

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

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• A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board

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  Love You, Sleep, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.111, Cambridge University Press

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• We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do - it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

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  Life, Hurt, Ocean

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.220, Cambridge University Press

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• There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

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  Liberty, Literature, Masters

  D. H. Lawrence (1995). “The Plumed Serpent”, p.61, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. There is not any part of me that is alone and absolute except my mind, and we shall find that the mind has no existence by itself, it is only the glitter of the sun on the surfaces of the water.

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  Eye, Blood, Sea

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8554, Delphi Classics

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• One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.

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  Realms, Pure

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

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• One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.

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  Leadership, Motivation, Rushing

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2003). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.130, Cambridge University Press

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• The living moment is everything.

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  Time, Self Help, Moments

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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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• 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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