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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

~D. H. Lawrence

Topics: Better Brutality Could Laugh Mix Tender World

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Only in a novel are all things given full play.

~D. H. Lawrence

Topics: All Things Full Given Novel Only Play Things

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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

~D. H. Lawrence

Topics: Age Essentially Ours Refuse Take Tragic Tragically

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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

~D. H. Lawrence

Topics: Cruelest Her Man Perfection Portray Thing Woman

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The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

~D. H. Lawrence

Topics: Accept Anything Assert Beliefs Body Consciousness Get Mind Pretend Proved Response Test Then

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The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

~D. H. Lawrence

Topics: Always Free Gives Giving Herself Never Who Woman Your

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

~D. H. Lawrence

Topics: Big Carry Life Ocean Onto Out Swamp Than Towns

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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

~D. H. Lawrence

Topics: Authority Free Get Hate Immediate Our Predecessors

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You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

~D. H. Lawrence

Topics: Abnormal Absorb Because Craving Eternal Fill Got Love Loved Must Negative Positive Shortage Somewhere To Love Up Want You Your Yourself

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

~D. H. Lawrence

Topics: Feelings Got Off Really Working You Yourself

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: September 11th, 1885

Died: March 2nd, 1930

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