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Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
By 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.
By David Herbert Lawrence
Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.
By David Herbert Lawrence
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
By David Herbert Lawrence
Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
By David Herbert Lawrence
One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
By David Herbert Lawrence
One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
By David Herbert Lawrence
One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
By David Herbert Lawrence
One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
By David Herbert Lawrence
One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
By David Herbert Lawrence
Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
By David Herbert Lawrence
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
By David Herbert Lawrence
My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.
By David Herbert Lawrence
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
By David Herbert Lawrence
Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
By David Herbert Lawrence
Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
By David Herbert Lawrence
It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
By David Herbert Lawrence
It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
By David Herbert Lawrence
It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
By David Herbert Lawrence
If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
By David Herbert Lawrence
I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
By David Herbert Lawrence
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.
By David Herbert Lawrence