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A Book Lives as Long as it is Unfathomed

A Book Lives as Long as it is Unfathomed

By: D.H. Lawrence

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Feb 21, 2023
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A book lives as long as it is unfathomed. Once it is fathomed, it dies at once.

It is an amazing thing, how utterly different a book will be, if I read it again after five years. Some books gain immensely, they are a new thing. They are so astonishingly different, they make a man question his own identity.

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