Women in Love by D H Lawrence Chapter 28 Page 15

‘“surely goodness and mercy hath followed me all the days of my life — ”‘ he broke off and giggled. Then he began again, intoning like a clergyman. ‘“Surely there will come an end in us to this desire — for the constant going apart, — this passion for putting asunder — everything — ourselves, reducing ourselves part from part — reacting in intimacy only for destruction, — using sex as a great reducing agent, reducing the two great elements of male and female from their highly complex unity — reducing the old ideas, going back to the savages for our sensations, — always seeking to LOSE ourselves in some ultimate black sensation, mindless and infinite — burning only with destructive fires, raging on with the hope of being burnt out utterly — ”‘