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The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
D. H. Lawrence
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D. H. Lawrence
Age: 45 †
Born: 1885
Born: January 1
Died: 1930
Died: January 1
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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination.
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