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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

Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Creation Story Trust
A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Man World
The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Death Help See Spiritual
She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Herself Love
You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Death Love Myself Yourself
Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Feeling Fight Laughter Life Love Satisfaction
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
When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Game Important Old People
Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Marriage Sin Yourself
He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Fear Himself Oneself People
All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Forever Himself Hope Necessary Past Woman
Man is a mistake. He must go.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Himself Leaving Let Go Man Mistake
Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Art Live True World
Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
D. H. LAWRENCE

World Yourself
They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Herself Himself Love Togetherness
The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Act Courage Emotion Responsibility Rule Strong

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?

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