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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.

D. H. Lawrence

The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Beautiful Freedom Love Woman
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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Better Death Life Live
She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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Herself Love
The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Alive Book Bright Life Man
The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
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Act Courage Emotion Responsibility Rule Strong
Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Creation Story Trust
Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.
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Deep Money Poison Yourself
They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.
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Herself Himself Love Togetherness
We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Fall Hard Time Inspirational Live
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.
D. H. LAWRENCE

God Myself Praise Word
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
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Kill Soul
If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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Alone Himself People
He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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Fear Himself Oneself People
He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Feeling Goodness Heart Himself Live Lost Misery
Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Alone Leaving Myself Yourself
Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.
D. H. LAWRENCE

Marriage Sin Yourself

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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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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