But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed.…

D. H. Lawrence
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But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff's edge, like Sappho into the sea. ✨ D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays, p.53, Cambridge University Press
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But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff's edge, like Sappho into the sea. ✨ D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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