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I've been and am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen and I'm quite ordinary, and will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.

T. E. Lawrence

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T. E. Lawrence
Age: 46 †
Born: 1888
Born: August 16
Died: 1935
Died: May 19
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If I could talk it like Dahoum, you would never be tired of listening to me.
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The greatest commander is he whose intuitions most nearly happen.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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Half a calamity is better than a whole one.
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I haven't got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has been removed and the area it occupied turned into a public garden, in pursuance of the slum-clearance scheme.
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To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
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Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.
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All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
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Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.
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Do not try and do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not win it for them.
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Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.
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A thick headcloth forms a good protection against the sun, and if you wear a hat your best Arab friends will be ashamed of you in public.
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He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.
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Dream your dreams with open eyes and make them come true.
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I wrote my will across the sky, in stars
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As long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous and cruel.
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