“You're spending your life without renewing it. You've got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You're spending your vitality without making any. Can't go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!”

—  D.H. Lawrence, book Lady Chatterley's Lover

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

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