Devote your living to producing the real You, and you will have lived according to D. H. Lawrence’s philosophy:
The final aim of every living thing, creature, or being, is the full achievement of itself. This accomplished, it will produce what it will produce, it will bear the fruit of its nature. Not the fruit, however, but the flower is the culmination and climax, the degree to be striven for. Not the work I shall produce, but the real Me I shall achieve, that is the consideration; of the complete Me will come the complete fruit of me, the work, the children. (Quoted from page 195 of The Poet as Botanist, by M. M. Mahood. 2008. Cambridge University Press.)
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