They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally nea…

D. H. Lawrence
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They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse. ✨ D. H. Lawrence (2016). Sons and Lovers, p.197, D. H. Lawrence
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They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse. ✨ D. H. Lawrence (2016). Sons and Lovers, p.197, D. H. Lawrence

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