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• I want us to be together without bothering about ourselves- to be really together because we ARE together, as if it were a phenomenon, not a thing we have to maintain by our own effort.

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  Effort, Together, Want

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Centaur Classics)”, p.1156, D. H. Lawrence

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• Sometimes snakes can’t slough. They can’t burst their old skin. Then they go sick and die inside the old skin, and nobody ever sees the new pattern. It needs a real desperate recklessness to burst your old skin at last. You simply don’t care what happens to you, if you rip yourself in two, so long as you do get out.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Rip, Real, Snakes

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.57, Cambridge University Press

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• The final aim is not to know, but to be.... You've got to know yourself so that you can at last be yourself. "Be yourself" is the last motto.

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  Being Yourself, Finals, Lasts

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8079, Delphi Classics

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• No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all that there is in life, it seems to me.

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  Love Is, Long, Form

  D. H. Lawrence, Dieter Mehl (2002). “The Fox, The Captain's Doll, The Ladybird”, p.201, Cambridge University Press

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• There's nothing wrong with sexual feelings in themselves, so long as they are straightforward and not sneaking or sly. The right sort of sex stimulus is invaluable to human daily life. Without it the world grows grey.

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  Sex, Long, Feelings

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.240, Cambridge University Press

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• [Man's] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun,rainbow, children, women, other men. But his greatest and final relation is with the sun.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Children, Flower, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.374, Cambridge University Press

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• For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once.

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  Men, Feet, Giving

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “The Rainbow”, p.172, OUP Oxford

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• Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

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  Men, Literature, Moral

  D. H. Lawrence (2006). “Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Christian, Men, Literature

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.86, Cambridge University Press

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• There's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sea, Mackerel, Mass

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.37, D. H. Lawrence

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• Man is a thought-adventurer.

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  Thoughtful, Men, Thinking

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Kangaroo”, p.281, Jester House Publishing

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• Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Feelings, Literature, Havens

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

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• Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Dirt, Comeback

  Phoenix "Pornography and Obscenity" ch. 3 (1936)

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• You're spending your life without renewing it. You've got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You're spending your vitality without making any. Can't go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!

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  Vitality, Goes On, Spending

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3754, Delphi Classics

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• Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.

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  Children, Wind, Sea

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.52, Cambridge University Press

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• Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

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  Strong, Tragedy, Gold

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.248, Cambridge University Press

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• When I wish I was rich, then I know I am ill.

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  Wish, Rich, Ill

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6669, Delphi Classics

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• That she bear children is not a woman's significance.
  But that she bear herself,
  that is her supreme and risky fate.

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  Children, Fate, Bears

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.7681, Delphi Classics

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• Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

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  Heart, Men, Literature

  D. H. Lawrence, Brian Finney (1983). “St Mawr and Other Stories”, p.122, Cambridge University Press

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• And whoever forces himself to love anybody
  begets a murderer in his own body.

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  Love, Body, Force

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

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• But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may.

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  Children, Hate, Men

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

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• The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

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  Thinking, Soul, Dozen

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Sea and Sardinia: Top Novelist Focus”, p.155, 谷月社

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• How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

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  Beautiful, Expression, Literature

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Sea and Sardinia”, p.62, Cambridge University Press

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• God doesn't know things. He is things.

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  Reality, Literature, Knows

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.736, Delphi Classics

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• This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest. That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back. That I must have the courage to let them come and go. That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women. There is my creed.

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  Believe, Dark, Men

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