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		The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind. David Herbert Lawrence Vote on this Quote: Bad <---> Good
		Author Details: Type: Writer Quotes Category: English Writer Quotes Date of Birth: September 11, 1885 Date of Death: March 2, 1930 Nationality: English Amazon: David Herbert Lawrence on Amazon	Related Authors: Thomas Paine Rudyard Kipling Douglas Adams Gilbert K. Chesterton John Ruskin Quentin Crisp P. G. Wodehouse Alain de Botton Agatha Christie
		Select David Herbert Lawrence Quotations: I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. David Herbert Lawrence Only in a novel are all things given full play. David Herbert Lawrence God doesn't know things. He is things. David Herbert Lawrence Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering. David Herbert Lawrence People always make war when they say they love peace. David Herbert Lawrence The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself. David Herbert Lawrence Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. David Herbert Lawrence
Quote Keywords: Art, Blood, Changes, Didactic, Essential, Function, Implicit, Mind, Moral, Morality, Passionate, Rather, Than, Which	Dictionary Links: Art, Blood, Didactic, Essential, Function, Implicit, Mind, Moral, Morality, Passionate, Rather, Than, Which	All David Herbert Lawrence Quotations: A man has no religion who... All that we know is nothing... All vital truth contains the memory... Be a good animal, true to... Be still when you have nothing... But better die than live mechanically... California is a queer place in... Consciousness is an end in itself... Creation destroys as it goes, throws... Death is the only pure, beautiful... Design in art, is a recognition... Do not allow to slip away... Don't be on the side of... Ethics and equity and the principles... Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies... For man, as for flower and... God doesn't know things. He is things. God how I hate new countries... God is only a great imaginative experience. Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has... How beautiful maleness is, if it... I am in love - and, my... I believe that a man is... I can never decide whether my... I can't bear art that you... I can't do with mountains at... I cannot cure myself of that... I hate the actor and audience... I hold that the parentheses are... I like to write when I... I never saw a wild thing... I shall always be a priest... I shall be glad when you... I want to live my life... If a woman hasn't got a... It is a fine thing to... It is quite true, as some... It is so much more difficult... It's bad taste to be wise... Life is a travelling to the... Life is ours to be spent... Literature is a toil and a... Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent. Love is the flower of life... Men always do leave off really... Men and women should stay apart... Men are freest when they are... Men! The only animal in the... Money is our madness, our vast... My God, these folks don't know... My great religion is a belief... My whole working philosophy is that... Myth is an attempt to narrate... Never trust the artist. Trust the... Nothing that comes from the deep... Oh literature, oh the glorious Art... Oh the innocent girl in her... One can no longer live with... One could laugh at the world... One must learn to love, and... One never can know the whys... One sheds one's sicknesses in books... Only in a novel are all... Ours is an excessively conscious age... Ours is essentially a tragic age... People always make war when they... Pornography is the attempt to insult... Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic... Reason is a supple nymph, and... Sentimentalism is the working off on... Sex and beauty are inseparable, like... Since obscenity is the truth of... So long as you don't feel... The American grips himself, at the... The business of art is to... The Christian fear of the pagan... The cruelest thing a man can... The day of the absolute is... The essential function of art is... The fairest thing in nature, a... The great living experience for every... The great mass of humanity should... The human being is a most... The human consciousness is really homogeneous... The human soul needs actual beauty... The mind can assert anything and... The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess... The more I see of democracy... The novel is the highest form... The one woman who never gives... The only history is a mere... The only justice is to follow... The proper study of mankind is... The refined punishments of the spiritual... The soul is a very perfect... The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for... The war is dreadful. It is... The world of men is dreaming... There is no such thing as... There is only one thing that... There's always the hyena of morality... They say geniuses mostly have great... This is the very worst wickedness... Towns oftener swamp one than carry... Tragedy is like strong acid - it... We have to hate our immediate... When one jumps over the edge... You don't want to love - your...

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