There is the unknown and the unknowable which propounds all creation. …

D. H. Lawrence
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There is the unknown and the unknowable which propounds all creation. This we cannot love , we can only accept it as a term of our own limitation and ratification. We can only know that from the unknown, profound desires enter in upon us, and that the fulfilling of these desires is the fulfilling of creation. ✨ Phoenix: the Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence by D. H. Lawrence.
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