Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
D. H. LAWRENCEThere is no pornography without a secrecy.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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You’re spending your life without renewing it. You’ve got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You’re spending your vitality without making any. Can’t go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!
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They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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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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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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What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming, rather awful sensuality.
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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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Nobody knows you. You don’t know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
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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.
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But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.
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Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.
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