The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a filthy association, calls up some repulsive emotion. Well, then, cleanse the mind, that is the real job. It is the mind which is the Augean stables, not language.


Sex literature and censorship: essays (ed. Irvington Pub, 1953)

D. H. Lawrence Quotes

The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a filthy association, calls up some repulsive emotion....

The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a filthy association, calls up some repulsive emotion....

The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a filthy association, calls up some repulsive emotion....

The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a filthy association, calls up some repulsive emotion....