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D. H. Lawrence Quotes: The final aim is not to know, but to be.... You've got to know yourself so that you can at last be yourself.
         

The final aim is not to know, but to be.... You've got to know yourself so that you can at last be yourself. "Be yourself" is the last motto.


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