D. H. Lawrence ✓

(1885–1930) librettist United Kingdom

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[Wikidata] English writer and poet (1885–1930)... | [Wikipedia] David Herbert Lawrence was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, literary critic, travel writer, essayist, and painter. His modernist works reflect on modernity, social alienation and industrialisation, while championing sexuality, vitality and instinct. Four of his most famous

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• What's that as flies without wings, your ladyship? Time! Time! Flies
• The living moment is everything. Inspirational
• Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a… Arrangement
• Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? Dipped into oblivion? If not, you will… Cancelled
• The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them. Beyond
• We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. Alive
• The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent. Deadly
• The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can… Beautiful
• Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is. Hydrogen
• The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours. I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't… Always Gets
• I believe a man is born first unto himself - for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty… Adversity
• One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to… Believe
• No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos. Bloom
• You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man… Becomes
• I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze. Feel
• Those that go searching for love, only manifest their own loveless ness. And the loveless never find love, only the loving find love. And they… Find

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