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The elephant, the huge old bea...

The elephant, the huge old beast,
is slow to mate

David Herbert Lawrence 137 quotes

Without secrecy there would be...

Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things.

David Herbert Lawrence 137 quotes

The whole question of pornogra...

The whole question of pornography seems to me a question of secrecy. Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things. Secrecy has always an element of fear in it, amounting very often to hate. Modesty is gentle and reserved. Today, modesty is thrown to the winds, even in the presence of the grey guardians. But secrecy is hugged, being a vice in itself. And the attitude of the grey ones is: Dear young ladies, you may abandon all modesty, so long as you hug your dir

David Herbert Lawrence 137 quotes

I see a redness suddenly come<...

I see a redness suddenly come
Into the evening's anxious breast--
'Tis the wound of love goes home!

David Herbert Lawrence 137 quotes

The tiny fish enjoy themselves...

The tiny fish enjoy themselves
in the sea.

David Herbert Lawrence 137 quotes

and Venus among the fishes ski...

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 the female tunny-fish, round and happy among the males
and dense with happy blood, dark rainbow bliss in the sea.

David Herbert Lawrence 137 quotes

Brave people add up to an aris...

Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.

David Herbert Lawrence 137 quotes

In the end, for congenial symp...

In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends--give me the country.

David Herbert Lawrence 137 quotes

In masturbation there is nothi...

In masturbation there is nothing but loss. There is no reciprocity. There is merely the spending away of a certain force, and no return. The body remains, in a sense, a corpse, after the act of self-abuse. There is no change, only deadening. There is what we call dead loss. And this is not the case in any act of sexual intercourse between two people. Two people may destroy one another in sex. But they cannot just produce the null effect of masturbation.

David Herbert Lawrence 137 quotes

Only the desert has a fascinat...

Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation.

David Herbert Lawrence 137 quotes

I should think the American ad...

I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes of bombs would have done.

David Herbert Lawrence 137 quotes

Why does the thin grey strand<...

Why does the thin grey strand
Floating up from the forgotten
Cigarette between my fingers,
Why does it trouble me?

David Herbert Lawrence 137 quotes

So slowly the hot elephant hea...

So slowly the hot elephant hearts
grow full of desire,
and the great beasts mate in secret at last,
hiding their fire.

David Herbert Lawrence 137 quotes

A woman has to live her life, ...

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

David Herbert Lawrence 137 quotes

Why, why are people all balls ...

Why, why are people all balls of bitter dust? Because they won't fall off the tree when they're ripe. They hang on to their old positions when the position is overpast, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot.

David Herbert Lawrence 137 quotes

And then she realized that his...

And then she realized that his presence was the wall, his presence was destroying her. Unless she could break out, she must die most fearfully, walled up in horror. And he was the wall. She must break down the wall. She must break him down before her, the awful obstruction of him who obstructed her life to the last. It must be done, or she must perish most horribly.

David Herbert Lawrence 137 quotes

And woman is the same as horse...

And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to subject herself utterly. With the other she wants to bolt, and pitch her rider to perdition.

David Herbert Lawrence 137 quotes

When I went to the scientific ...

When I went to the scientific doctor
I realised what a lust there was in him to wreak his so-called science on me
and reduce me to the level of a thing.
So I said: Good-morning! and left him.

David Herbert Lawrence 137 quotes

Instead of chopping yourself d...

Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.

David Herbert Lawrence 137 quotes

the more i live, the more i re...

the more i live, the more i realize what strange creatures human beings are. some of them might just as well have a hundred legs, like a centipede, or six, like a lobster. the human consistency and dignity one has been led to expect from one's fellow-man seem actually non-existent. one doubts if they exist to any startling degree even in oneself.

David Herbert Lawrence 137 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....