There is no pornography without a secrecy.
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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One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.
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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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What one does in one’s art, that is the breath of one’s being. What one does in one’s life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.
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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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She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
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We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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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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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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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets,unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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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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Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
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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 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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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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One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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