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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.
~ David Herbert Lawrence ~

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
~ David Herbert Lawrence ~

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
~ David Herbert Lawrence ~

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
~ David Herbert Lawrence ~

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
~ 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.
~ 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.
~ David Herbert Lawrence ~

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
~ 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.
~ David Herbert Lawrence ~

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
~ David Herbert Lawrence ~

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
~ David Herbert Lawrence ~