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. LAWRENCEVitally, 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.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.
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It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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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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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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We fucked a flame into being.
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There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.
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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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Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.
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The human soul needs beauty more than bread.
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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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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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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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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