Sexuality Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

10 Sexuality quotes by D. H. Lawrence

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D. H. Lawrence never shied away from raw feeling. In ten short excerpts he explores the pulse of sexuality, offering a quick yet evocative glimpse into his passionate perspective.

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The nice clean intimacy which we now so admire between the sexes is sterilizing. It makes neuters. Later on, no deep, magical…

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Sex is really only touch, the closest of all touch. And it's touch we're afraid of.

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Where is the source of all money-sickness, and the origin of all sex-perversion?… It lies in the heart of man, and not…

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If you believe in your own sex, and won't have it done dirt to: they'll down you. It's the one insane taboo…

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I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16.

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Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them.

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Sex is our deepest form of consciousness. It is utterly non-ideal, non-mental. It is pure blood-consciousness… It is the consciousness of the…

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There's nothing wrong with sexual feelings in themselves, so long as they are straightforward and not sneaking or sly. The right sort…

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Sex is the one thing you cannot really swindle; and it is the centre of the worst swindling of all, emotional swindling……

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What sex is, we don't know, but it must be some sort of fire. For it always communicates a sense of warmth,…

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Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time.

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and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea she is…

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If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing softly, and…

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Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey towards oblivion. The apples falling like great drops of dew to bruise…

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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

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Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and…

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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not…

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The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close.…

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It is our business to go as we are impelled.

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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

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If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.

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They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

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The living moment is everything.

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If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!

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