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. LAWRENCEThis is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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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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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
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I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.
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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.
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If a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.
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The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
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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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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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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one’s history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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