D. H. Lawrence Quotes

The east is not for me--the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes.

D. H. Lawrence

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• The east is not for me--the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • People
  • Black
  • Eyes