Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
D. H. LAWRENCEAs we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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You can’t insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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He worked very hard, till nothing lived in him but his eyes.
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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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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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Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
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All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
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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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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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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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The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.
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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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Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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