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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.

D. H. Lawrence

Literature, Knows

D. H. Lawrence, Dieter Mehl (2002). “The Fox, The Captain's Doll, The Ladybird”, p.113, Cambridge University Press

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Away with all ideals. Let each individual act spontaneously from the forever incalculable prompting of the creative wellhead within him. There is no universal law.

D. H. Lawrence

Law, Creative, Forever

D. H. Lawrence, N. H. Reeve, John Worthen (2005). “Introductions and Reviews”, p.6, Cambridge University Press

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The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences. . . . The world doesn't fear a new idea. It can pigeon-hole any idea. But it can't pigeon-hole a real new experience.

D. H. Lawrence

Fear, Real, New Experiences

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

D. H. Lawrence

Children, Fate, Bears

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

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No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb: unless the lamb is inside.

D. H. Lawrence

Lying, Lambs, Lions

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The whole point about the true unconscious is that it is all the time moving forward, beyond the range of its own fixed laws or habits. It is no good trying to superimpose an ideal nature upon the unconscious.

D. H. Lawrence

Change, Moving, Law

D. H. Lawrence (2006). “Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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Lies About Love We are all liars, because The truth of yesterday becomes a lie tomorrow, Whereas letters are fixed, and we live by the letter of truth. The love I feel for my friend, this year, is different from the love I felt last year. If it were not so, it would be a lie. Yet we reiterate love! love! love! as if it were a coin with fixed value instead of a flower that dies, and opens a different bud.

D. H. Lawrence

Liars, Lying, Flower

David Herbert Lawrence (1994). “The Works of D.H. Lawrence: With an Introduction and Bibliography”, p.552, Wordsworth Editions

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It seems to me that the chief thing about a woman - who is much of a woman - is that in the long run she is not to be had... She is not to be caught by any of the catch-words, love, beauty, honor, duty, worth, work, salvation - none of them - not in the long run. In the long run she only says Am I satisfied, or is there some beastly dissatisfaction gnawing and gnawing inside me. And if there is some dissatisfaction, it is physical, at least as much as psychic, sex as much as soul.

D. H. Lawrence

Love, Running, Sex

"The Letters of D. H. Lawrence".

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That's just what a woman is. She thinks she knows what's good for a man, and she's going to see he gets it; and no matter if he's starving, he may sit and whistle for what he needs, while she's got him, and is giving him what's good for him.

D. H. Lawrence

Women, Thinking, Giving

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.598, Book House

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The purest lesson our era has taught is that man, at his highest, is an individual, single, isolate, alone, in direct soul-communication with the unknown God, which prompts within him.

D. H. Lawrence

God, Communication, Men

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.2907, Delphi Classics

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Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.

D. H. Lawrence

Soul, Literature

D. H. Lawrence (2002). “Women in Love”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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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.

D. H. Lawrence

Light, Water, Democracy

D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.244, Cambridge University Press

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Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued so he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether.

D. H. Lawrence

Revenge, Men, Risk

D.H. Lawrence (2015). “D. H. Lawrence The Dover Reader”, p.181, Courier Dover Publications

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A man was like a child with his appetites. A woman had to yield him what he wanted, or like a child he would probably turn nasty and flounce away and spoil what was a very pleasant connection.

D. H. Lawrence

Children, Men, Yield

D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

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

D. H. Lawrence

Love, Life, Sex

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It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond women, to his supreme activity. For his highest, man is responsible to God alone.

D. H. Lawrence

God, Religious, Women

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Men and women aren't really dogs: they only look like it and behave like it. Somewhere inside there is a great chagrin and a gnawing discontent.

D. H. Lawrence

Dog, Men, Looks

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8440, Delphi Classics

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Where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united.

D. H. Lawrence

Science, Ties, Atoms

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And every true artist is the salvation of every other. But only artists produce for each other the world that is fit to live in.

D. H. Lawrence

Artist, World, Fit

"Women in Love: Top Novelist Focus".

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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

D. H. Lawrence

Animal, Men, Thinking

D. H. Lawrence, Brian Finney (1983). “St Mawr and Other Stories”, p.61, 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.

D. H. Lawrence

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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The search for happiness ... always ends in the ghastly sense of the bottomless nothingness into which you will inevitably fall if you strain any further.

D. H. Lawrence

Happiness, Fall, Ends

D. H. Lawrence, Dieter Mehl (2002). “The Fox, The Captain's Doll, The Ladybird”, p.69, Cambridge University Press

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She looked at him, and oh, the weariness to her, of the effort to understand another language, the weariness of hearing him, attending to him, making out who he was, as he stood there fair-bearded and alien, looking at her. She knew something of him, of his eyes. But she could not grasp him. She closed her eyes.

D. H. Lawrence

Eye, Effort, Hearing

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

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I cannot get any sense of an enemy - only of a disaster.

D. H. Lawrence

Enemy, Disaster

D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.214, Cambridge University Press

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Sex is the root of which intuition is the foliage and beauty is the flower.

D. H. Lawrence

Sex, Flower, Roots

D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

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