“Nobody knows you.
You don't know yourself.
And I, who am half in love with you,
What am I in love with?
My own imaginings?”

— D.H. Lawrence

Source: The Complete Poems

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English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary crit… 1885–1930

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