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There is no evolving, only unfolding. The lily is in the bit of dust which is its beginning, lily and nothing but lily: and the lily in blossom is a ne plus ultra: there is no evolving beyond. - D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Attribution: D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885–1930), British author. The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, p. 412, letter, July 21, 1917, to Eunice Tietjens, Heinemann (1932).

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