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D. H. Lawrence


English
September 11, 1885
Writer
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.


D. H. Lawrence
Tags: Great Death Only
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Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.


D. H. Lawrence
Tags: Nothing Bad Soul
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Only in a novel are all things given full play.


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Tags: Things Only Play
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.


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Tags: Love Man His
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The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.


D. H. Lawrence
Tags: Fear Man Whole
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.


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


D. H. Lawrence
Tags: Life Want Live
Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
D. H. Lawrence
Tags: Out Man Away
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I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.


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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.


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Tags: More Day Over
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
D. H. Lawrence
Tags: You Say Got
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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Tags: Change You Our
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
D. H. Lawrence
Tags: Than Which Mind
I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
D. H. Lawrence
I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.
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Tags: Always Never Way
I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
D. H. Lawrence
Tags: About Who Will
The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
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Tags: Just More See
The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.
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Tags: More Life Very
Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
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Tags: Death Up Would
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
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