The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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We are dying, we are dying, piecemeal our bodies are dying and our strength leaves us, and our soul cowers naked in the dark rain over the flood, cowering in the last branches of the tree of our life.David Herbert Lawrence
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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People always make war when they say they love peace.
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Necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt the heaviest ore of the body into purity.
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I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.
David Herbert Lawrence
The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
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