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Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat. Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.
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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At a wavering instant the swallows gave way to bats By the Ponte Vecchio . . . Changing guard.
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Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.
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Yea, Paris is a festive ton -- a festive Ton for all! Skate o'er on joy -- Thin crust of gilded, polished joy! What matters it if Hell's beneath?
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