“Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.”

— D.H. Lawrence

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

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