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If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelisthonours the relationship in itself, it will be a great novel.

D. H. Lawrence

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D. H. Lawrence
Age: 45 †
Born: 1885
Born: January 1
Died: 1930
Died: January 1
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The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.
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We are dying, we are dying, we are all of us dying and nothing will stay the death-flood rising within us and soon it will rise on the world, on the outside world.
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Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them.
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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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I will wait and watch till the day of David at last shall be finished, and wisdom no more fox-faced, and the blood gets back its flame.
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The lion shall never lie down with the lamb. The lion eternally shall devour the lamb, the lamb eternally shall be devoured. Man knows the great consummation in the flesh, the sensual ecstasy, and that is eternal. Also the spiritual ecstasy of unanimity, that is eternal. But the two are separate and never to be confused.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
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And every true artist is the salvation of every other. But only artists produce for each other the world that is fit to live in.
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In my very own self, I am part of my family.
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We are so conceited and so unproud.
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