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)

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

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