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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

For God’s sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don’t say surgaries, or I’m done.
D. H. LAWRENCE

God Myself Praise Word
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
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
D. H. LAWRENCE

Myself Sorry Wild
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Better Death Life Live
Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Deep Relationship Silence Word
Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Born Children Hope
They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Freedom Goodness Live Man Philosophy Woman
Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Body Fear Mindset Resistance
A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
D. H. LAWRENCE

Love Luxury Man Poor Satisfaction Woman
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
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
I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Discover Hate Love Myself
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
She was not herself–she was not anything. She was something that is going to be–soon–soon–very soon. But as yet, she was only imminent.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Be Yourself Change Herself Improvement
You can’t insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Believe Beyond Future Power Yourself
Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Death Greatness Human Ourselves Race Tree

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.

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