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“Lady Chatterley's Lover could do nothing but awaken those who desired to be awakened. For others, the experience has to be gone through, not with the body but with the mind. Lawrence says himself: "This is the real point of the book. I want men and women to be able to think sex, fully, completely, honestly and cleanly." Now this cannot be done if we are afraid of words.”

“But if Lawrence had meant to justify mere sensation for its own sake he would have stopped with the descriptions of the physical acts. As it is, one French commentator at least has taken him to task for exalting sexual experience and enveloping it with mysticism.”

“an old philosophic truth, but one concealed from all but the mystics: an experience, provided it is lived with intensity and sincerity, often leads out of itself into its opposite. Novalis called it the "perfection of the absolute" and said: "All absolute sensation is religious.”

“Here the rhythm of emotions is associated with the profounder rhythm of nature itself (a feeling familiar to the poets), and Lady Chatterley feels that she is sinking into the deepest sources of creation.”

“However: "The girl who has got to make her way in life has got to be dauntless, and if she has a pretty, demure manner with it, then lucky girl. She kills two birds with two stones. ”

My book is so awesome and it’s my life and everything that I’ve overcome. The people that have kept me from my work and sex from the around 1995 hate me for it because I’ll be in that list.

“Of course, the woman-artist, who was herself an image maker, a pattern maker, made her own images and her own patterns. Georges Sand was Georges Sand all through. In fact, a revelation to men. So was Madame de Stael—absolute self-created individualities. So were Jane Austen and George Eliot, Amy Lowell, and so, today, is Ruth Draper”

“of blood. And then all the blood in me ebbs back into its ways, transmuted, changed. And in this renewal lies the great magic of sex. For it is a liberation, a perfected sex-circuit.”

“As the night falls and the consciousness sinks deeper, suddenly the blood is heard hoarsely calling. Suddenly the deep centers of the sexual consciousness rouse to their spontaneous activity. Suddenly there is a deep circuit established between me and the woman. Suddenly the sea of blood which is me heaves and rushes towards the sea of blood which is her. There is a moment of pure frictional crisis and contact

“But there is need of a renewal. "What are they doing? Who knows? But perhaps they are giving themselves to the pulsing incalculable fall of the blood, which forever seeks to fall to the center of the earth, while the heart, like a planet pulsating in an orbit, keeps up the strange, lonely circulating of the separate human existence”

“And don't, with the nasty, prying mind, drag it" (sex) "out from its deeps and finger it and force it, and shatter the rhythm it keeps when it's left alone, as it stirs and rouses and sleeps."
 
(The deeps are also the "darkness." There is "beauty and dignity in the darkness.")”

The worst most disgusting people use machines and technology to drag and destroy sex.

“Thus Lawrence says with the same pure, profound disregard of appearances: everything is either alive or dead, according to transcendental definitions of life and death.”

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D.H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study
Anaïs Nin
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