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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

~D. H. Lawrence

Topics: Actual Beauty Bread Human Human Soul More Needs Soul Than

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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.

~D. H. Lawrence

Topics: Abolish Accumulate Alive Another City Creation Death Destroys Down Every Existence Goes Horror Ideal Itself Mankind Mere Million Multiply Parasite Rear Rise Save Throws Tree Until Up Would

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God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

~D. H. Lawrence

Topics: Anything Certain Conceited Countries God Hate How Like More Much New Old Older Only Sophisticated Than Vanity Young

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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.

~D. H. Lawrence

Topics: Always Anything Close Doing Mountains Moving Never Quarters Stupid Themselves Way

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Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

~D. H. Lawrence

Topics: Imminent Loud Makes Peace Propaganda Seem War

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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

~D. H. Lawrence

Topics: Artist Created Critic Function Never Proper Save Tale Trust Who

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Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

~D. H. Lawrence

Topics: Alas Art Aside Bones Glorious How Literature Marrow Oh Our Out Stuffing Us

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One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

~D. H. Lawrence

Topics: Again Books Emotions Master Presents Repeats Sheds Them

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Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.

~D. H. Lawrence

Topics: Almost Art Obscenity Only Our Passion Since Stuff Today Truth

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The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.

~D. H. Lawrence

Topics: Action Adventure Embrace Embraces Every Every Man Experience Great Himself His Living Man New Woman

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: September 11th, 1885

Died: March 2nd, 1930

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