And as he went about arranging and as he sat talking there seemed something false about him and out of tune.Watching him unknown she said to herself there was no stability about him. He was when he was in one mood. And now he looked paltry and insignificant. There was nothing stable about him. Her husband had more manly dignity. At any rate he did not waft about with any wind. There was something evanescent about Morel she thought something shifting and false. He would never make sure ground for any woman to stand on. She despised him rather for his shrinking together getting smaller. Her husband at least was manly and when he was beaten gave in. but this other would never own to being beaten. He would shift round and round, get smaller.
D.H. LawrenceShe had borne so long this cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.
D.H. LawrenceThat's how women are with me " said Paul. "They want me like mad but they don't want to belong to me.
D.H. LawrenceAh God, what has man done to man? What have the leaders of men been doing to their fellow men? They have reduced them to less than humanness; and now there can be no fellowship any more! It is just a nightmare.
D.H. LawrenceOn revient toujours a son premier amour." It sounds like a cynicism to-day. As if we really meant: "On ne revient jamais a son premier amour." But as a matter of fact, a man never leaves his first love, once the love is established. He may leave his first attempt at love. Once a man establishes a full dynamic communication at the deeper and higher centers, with a woman, this can never be broken. But sex in the head breaks down, and half circuits break down. Once the full circuit is established, however, this can never break.
D.H. LawrenceTags: man woman cynicism first-love
A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
D.H. LawrenceLife is a traveling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
D.H. LawrenceDEMOCRACY OF TOUCH - instead of a democracy of pocket.
D.H. LawrenceHow ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions.
D.H. Lawrencethere is no pornography without a secrecy.
D.H. LawrenceTags: eroticism
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