She turned, and saw a great white moon looking at her over the hill. And her breast opened to it, she was cleaved like a transparent jewel to its light. She stood filled with the full moon, offering herself. Her two breasts opened to make way for it, her body opened wide like a quivering anemone, a soft, dilated invitation touched by the moon. D.h. Lawrence
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  1. Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars. - E.e. Cummings

  2. Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change. - William Shakespeare

  3. That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind - Neil Armstrong

  4. In presence of the Moon nobody sees stars. - Amit Kalantri

  5. When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this world, with all the things that are in it, with all its defects, should be the best that omnipotence and omniscience have been... - Bertrand Russell

More Quotes By D.h. Lawrence
  1. For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.

  2. Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?

  3. It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if she adored him too much, then she would lose herself, become effaced,...

  4. A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

  5. It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness...

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