You’re always begging things to love you, he said, as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them–
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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Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.
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Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
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I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.
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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.
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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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Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
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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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She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
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Only youth has a taste of immortality.
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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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The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
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I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.
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