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Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.
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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And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.
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At a wavering instant the swallows gave way to bats By the Ponte Vecchio . . . Changing guard.
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There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
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I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.
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Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
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