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Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
D. H. Lawrence
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D. H. Lawrence
Age: 45 †
Born: 1885
Born: January 1
Died: 1930
Died: January 1
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David Herbert Lawrence
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I wonder which was more frightened among old tribes -- those bursting out of their darkness of woods upon all the space of light, or those from the open tiptoeing into the forests.
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Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
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Where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united.
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