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Those that go searching for love
only make manifest their own lovelessness,
and the loveless never find love,
only the loving find love,
and they never have to seek for it.

— D. H. Lawrence

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Source: "Search for Love" in The Works of D. H. Lawrence, Wordsworth Editions, (1994), p. 552
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