3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.
3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art – or almost the only stuff.
3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.