She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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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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For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
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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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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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We fucked a flame into being.
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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place – even the butterfly.
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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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When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
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Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.
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If a woman hasn’t got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she’s a dry stick as a rule.
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Their words were only accidents in the mutual silence.
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Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
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