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Quotes from lawrence d h v

Melville had to fight, fight against the existing world, against his own very self. Only he would never quite put the knife in the heart of his paradisal ideal. Somehow, somewhere, somewhen, love should be a fulfillment, and life should be a thing of bliss. That was his fixed ideal. Fata Morgana. That was the pin he tortured himself on, like a pinned-down butterfly.
~ lawrence d h v
When love enters, the whole spiritual constitution of a man changes, is filled with the Holy Ghost, and almost his form is altered.
~ lawrence d h v
From the unknown, profound desires enter in upon us, and ... the fulfilling of those desires is the fulfilling of creation.
~ lawrence d h v
The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.
~ lawrence d h v
A man was like a child with his appetites. A woman had to yield him what he wanted, or like a child he would probably turn nasty and flounce away and spoil what was a very pleasant connection.
~ lawrence d h v
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!
~ lawrence d h v
It's autumn ... and everybody feels like a disembodied spirit then.
~ lawrence d h v
Sodom and Madonna-ism are two halves of the same movement, the mere tick-tack of lust and asceticism, pietism and pornography.
~ lawrence d h v
Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.
~ lawrence d h v
Love was the flower of life, and blossomed unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it was found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
~ lawrence d h v