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D. H. Lawrence was an English novelist and poet, born on September 11, 1885, and died on March 2, 1930. He is recognized for his distinctive prose style and his exploration of complex human relationships, particularly in the context of modernity and industrialization. His works often deal with themes of love, sex, and the struggle for individuality.

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“The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.”

Want Feels Trying Age Past Sea South Nostalgia Golden Golden Age

Book:Studies in Classic American Literature

Source: Studies in Classic American Literature

“Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?”

Feels Believe Bits Friendship Believe In Me

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“I am turned into a dream. I feel nothing, or I don't know what I feel. Yet it seems to me I am happy.”

Knows Feels Dream Seems

Book:The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories

Source: The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories

“I always feel as if I stood naked for the fire of Almighty God to go through me--and it's rather an awful feeling. One has to be so terribly religious to be an artist.”

Ifs Feels Art God Feelings Artist Religion Religious Fire Naked Awful Almighty Almighty God

Book:The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“The difference between people isn't in their class, but in themselves. Only from the middle classes one gets ideas, and from the common people--life itself, warmth. You feel their hates and loves.”

People Feels Ideas Hate Differences Common Class Middle And Love Middle Class Warmth Love And Hate

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“One should feel inside oneself for right and wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God.”

Feels Should Should Have Oneself Realising

Book:D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)

Source: D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)

“What sex is, we don't know, but it must be some sort of fire. For it always communicates a sense of warmth, of glow. And when this glow becomes a pure shine, then we feel the sense of beauty. We all have the fire of sex slumbering or burning inside us. If we live to be ninety, it is still there. Or, if it dies, we become one of those ghastly living corpses which are unfortunately becoming more numerous in the world.”

Ifs Knows World Feels Stills Dies Sex Fire Becoming Pure Shining Communicate Burning Warmth Ninety Corpses Becoming More Ghastly Burning Inside

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“You feel free in Australia. There is great relief in the atmosphere - a relief from tension, from pressure, an absence of control of will or form. The Skies open above you and the areas open around you.”

Feels Form Sky Areas Pressure Absence Atmosphere Tension Relief Australia

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“But I like the feel of men on things, while they're alive. There's a feel of men about trucks, because they've been handled with men's hands, all of them.”

Men Feels Hands Alive Truck

Book:D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)

Source: D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)

“Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.”

Knows Feels Littles Age Literature Knowledge Conscious Birthday

Book:D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles

Source: D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles

“My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.”

Feels Mind Believe Truth Belief Bits Blood Intelligent Intellect Flesh Wiser

Book:The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I'm sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual - we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. I'm sure that is entirely wrong.”

Feels Should Looks Moving Life Is Air Visuals Touched

Book:D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Centaur Classics)

Source: D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Centaur Classics)

“Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more or less to the bedrock of belief that one should feel inside oneself for right or wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God. Now life interested him more.”

Feels Should Belief Should Have Oneself Backgrounds Realising Fading Bedrock Hamper

Book:Sons and Lovers

Source: Sons and Lovers

“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.”

Source: The Works of D.H. Lawrence: With an Introduction and Bibliography

“Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.”

Feels Life Is Fighting Love Is Laughing Bitter Fulfillment Bliss Paradise

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.”

Feels Stills States Car Stones Motor Millionaire Poisoning Motor Cars

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“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.”

Men Feels Risk Revenge Destroying Recklessness

Book:D. H. Lawrence The Dover Reader

Source: D. H. Lawrence The Dover Reader

“It's autumn and everybody feels like a disembodied spirit then.”

Feels Spirit Autumn

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze.”

Feels Writing Spiteful Sneezing

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“They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.”

Men Feels Interest Wife College Wind University Farms Grain Corn Fowl Small Man

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“I've never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself.”

Feels Sorry Wild Things

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“So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.”

Feels Long Matter Miserable Unhappiness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“How sure I feel, how warm and strong and happy For the future! How sure the future is within me; I am like a seed with a perfect flower enclosed.”

Feels Strong Perfect Flower Future Warm Seeds

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like a swan that can't settle, refusing to sit still and be measured; and as if the atom were an impulsive thing always changing its mind.”

Ifs Feels Mind Stills Science Space Theory Settling Atoms Quantum Relativity Swans Impulsive Quantum Theory

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

About the Author

Born: September 11, 1885
Died: March 2, 1930
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 721

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