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This book compiles a selection of letters written by the English writer D. H. Lawrence, offering insights into his personal life, thoughts, and experiences.
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“I cannot get any sense of an enemy - only of a disaster.”
“The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.”
“My soul is my great asset and my great misfortune.”
“I think I am much too valuable a creature to offer myself to a German bullet gratis and for fun.”
“Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.”
“Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.”
“One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.”
“All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.”
“I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.”
“I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.”
“My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.”
“As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction”
“A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board”
“You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.”
“The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.”
“One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.”
“An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.”
“Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.”