D. H. Lawrence
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"Novel:"Sons and LoversThe RainbowWomen in LoveLady Chatterley's Lover

*"Short Story:"Odour of ChrysanthemumsThe Virgin and the GypsyThe Rocking-Horse Winner}}

/ influences = Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, J. P. Jacobsen, Herman Melville, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, Lev Shestov, Walt Whitman

/ influenced = Charles Bukowski, Anthony Burgess, Ronald Verlin Cassill, Aldous Huxley, Doris Lessing, Anaïs Nin, Joyce Carol Oates, Octavio Paz, Dylan Thomas, Tennessee Williams

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"David Herbert Richards Lawrence" was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter who published as "D. H. Lawrence". His collected works, among other things, represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, some of the issues Lawrence explores are emotional health, vitality, spontaneity and instinct.

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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

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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.

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Here, you can't live as you like - in any way or circumstance. You're like a bit out of those coloured mosaics in the hall, you have to fit in your own set, fit into your own pattern, because you're put there from the first. But you don't want to be like a fixed bit of a mosaic - you want to fuse into life, and melt and mix with the rest of folk, to have some things burned out of you.

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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

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I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself.

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It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

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For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or 'consciously' desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are.

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There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.

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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale.

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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

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