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Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.

Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.

D. H. Lawrence
Real, Society, Purpose

Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.

D. H. Lawrence
Travel, Venus De Milo, Society
D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8209, Delphi Classics

I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating.

D. H. Lawrence
Sex, Thinking, Society
D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.99, Cambridge University Press

America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you -- no awareness. But one tries to dodge aside in time. Bump! bump! go the trucks. And that is human contact.

D. H. Lawrence
America, People, Society

I should like [people] to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness. and They only like to do the collective thing.

D. H. Lawrence
People, Society, Individualism
D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.947, Book House

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