[Sons and Lovers by David Herbert Lawrence]@TWC D-Link bookSons and Lovers CHAPTER IX 147/150
In all our relations no body enters.
I do not talk to you through the senses--rather through the spirit.
That is why we cannot love in the common sense.
Ours is not an everyday affection. As yet we are mortal, and to live side by side with one another would be dreadful, for somehow with you I cannot long be trivial, and, you know, to be always beyond this mortal state would be to lose it.
If people marry, they must live together as affectionate humans, who may be commonplace with each other without feeling awkward--not as two souls. So I feel it. "Ought I to send this letter ?--I doubt it.
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