D. H. Lawrence

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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

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Source: "Nottingham and the Mining Countryside", D. H. Lawrence, Architectural Review, 1930 (collected in Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence, 1936)

Genuine Lawrence, from his late essay on the ugliness of the English mining towns. Note the wording: Lawrence wrote 'The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.' The corpus text drops 'even'. Recommend restoring the original word before promotion.

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