Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
D. H. LAWRENCEBut 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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Man is a mistake. He must go.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
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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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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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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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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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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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Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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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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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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