D. H. Lawrence — a remark

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“The deepest self is way down, and the conscious self is an obstinate monkey.”

A vivid contrast between instinctive being and the argumentative conscious mind · Critical study, Studies in Classic American Literature

About D. H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence

11 September 1885–2 March 1930

David Herbert Lawrence was born on 11 September 1885 at 8a Victoria Street in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, an English coal-mining town whose physical landscape, class divisions, and social pressures would remain central to his imagination. He was the fourth child of Arthur John Lawrence, a coal miner, and Lydia…

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