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Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.

D. H. Lawrence

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Human Oneself Philosophy Soul Thinking
Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Accomplishment History Hold Leaving Life Myself Oneself Reality
I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Fear Myself Reality
Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Company Perfection
I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Feeling Goodness Myself Writing
There’s lots of good fish in the sea, maybe, but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you’re not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Animal Goodness Sea Yourself
Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Man Revenge Woman
If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Alone Himself People
What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming, rather awful sensuality.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Lying Poet Thinking
And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Animal Creation Flower Nature
Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Alone People Reality Togetherness World
The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Alive Book Bright Life Man
Nobody knows you. You don’t know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
D. H. LAWRENCE

Imagination Love Philosophy Relationship Yourself
The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Beauty Food Human Need Soul
If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Fall Love Moon Myself
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Evil Passionate Worst

Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.

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