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. LAWRENCEMankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
More D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
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Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
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Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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If you could only tell them that living and spending isn’t the same thing! But it’s no good. If only they were educated to live instead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily.
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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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It’s not art for art’s sake, it’s art for my sake.
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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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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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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.
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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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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.
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Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
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For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
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