“Life is ours to be spent, not to
be saved.”

— D.H. Lawrence

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

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You know when I need to die? When I'm done living. When I can't walk, can't eat, can't see, when I'm a crotchety old bastard, mad at the world. Then I can die.