Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
D. H. LAWRENCEFor my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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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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I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.
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Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman.
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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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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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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.
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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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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.
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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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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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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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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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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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