He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
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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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
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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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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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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–
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All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.
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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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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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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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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.
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You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And there I will die smothered.
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If only there weren’t so many other people in the world,’ he said lugubriously.
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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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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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There’s lots of good fish in the sea, maybe, but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you’re not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
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She thought she loved, she thought she was full of love.
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