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What D.H. Lawrence wrote in one of his private letters--"I feel sometimes that I shall go mad"--is the key to both the man and his work. One part of his being was, in his own words, "damnably violent" but another and--as he granted--a deeper part responded to "the kindness of the Cosmos." He was a disjointed disconnected man, a seer filled often with bitter spleen.

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 4 : Reflections On Specific Arts > # 68