This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the p…

D. H. Lawrence
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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten. ✨ D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, p.315, Cambridge University Press
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