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“I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery.”

Quote by D. H. Lawrence

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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. more

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“Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat. Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.”

Men Way Looks Self Love You Tragedy Defeat Pity Being In Love Self Pity Sloppy

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

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

“The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a filthy association, calls up some repulsive emotion. Well, then, cleanse the mind, that is the real job. It is the mind which is the Augean stables, not language.”

Mind Wells Real Jobs Language Emotion Clean Association Drag Filthy Obscenity Real Jobs

Book:Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence

Source: Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence

“The East is marvellously interesting for tracing our steps back. But for going forward, it is nothing. All it can hope for is to be fertilised by Europe, so that it can start on a new phase.”

Interesting Steps History Europe East Phases Tracing

Book:The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“[During the Renaissance] the Italians said, "We are one in the Father: we will go back." The Northern races said, "We are one in Christ, we will go on.”

Said Father Christ Race Christianity History Goes On Europe Renaissance

Book:Twilight in Italy and Other Essays

Source: Twilight in Italy and Other Essays

“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)

“For man, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. Whatever the unborn may know, they cannot know the beauty, the marvel of being alive in the flesh. The dead may look after the afterwards. But the magnificent here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours alone, and ours only for a time.”

Knows Men Life Looks May Body Alive Flower Bird Flesh Supreme Triumph Beast Mortality Magnificent Here And Now Unborn

Book:Apocalypse

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“Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really.”

Life Real Death Shapes Life Death Shimmer

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

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

“The man who had died looked nakedly on life, and saw a vast resoluteness everywhere flinging itself up in stormy or subtle wave-crests.... always the man who had died saw not the bird alone, but the short, sharp wave of life of which the bird was the crest.”

Men Life Nature Christianity Saws He Man Bird Died Wave Subtle Stormy Wave Of Life

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

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

“Personality and mind, like moustaches, belong to a certain age. They are a deformity in a child.... Leave his sensibilities, his emotions, his spirit, and his mind severely alone. There is the devil in mothers, that they must provoke personalresponse from their infants.”

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Book:Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays

Source: Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays

“The mind is "ashamed" of the blood. And the blood is destroyed by the mind, actually. Hence palefaces.”

Mind Blood Shame Instinct Destroyed Ashamed

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

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