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“How beastly the bourgeois is especially the male of the species”

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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“The Spirit of Place [does not] exert its full influence upon a newcomer until the old inhabitant is dead or absorbed. So America.... The moment the last nuclei of Red [Indian] life break up in America, then the white men will have to reckon with the full force of the demon of the continent.”

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“It is time that the Protestant Church, the Church of the Son, should be one again with the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of the Father. It is time that man shall cease, first to live in the flesh, with joy, and then, unsatisfied, to renounce and to mortify the flesh.”

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“No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer.”

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

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“I should like [people] to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness. and They only like to do the collective thing.”

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