The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

Quote by David Herbert Lawrence

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I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

God doesn't know things. He is things.

God doesn't know things. He is things.

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling...

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling...

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it...

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it...

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd,...

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd,...

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

Only in a novel are all things given full play.

Only in a novel are all things given full play.

The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of...

The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of...

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it...

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it...

I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way,...

I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way,...

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than...

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than...

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry...

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry...

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be...

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be...

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything...

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything...

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.