But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff’s edge, like Sappho into the sea.
D. H. LAWRENCEThere is no pornography without a secrecy.
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That’s the place to get to – nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.
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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.
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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
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Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.
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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.
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You’re always begging things to love you, he said, as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them–
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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.
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I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.
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That’s how women are with me said Paul. They want me like mad but they don’t want to belong to me.
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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.
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