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It was, of course, precisely this flippant attitude, one Lawrence seemed determined to flaunt both in his correspondence and in person, that so incensed his military superiors.
But his defiance of soldierly protocol also underscored a deeper truth: Lawrence was fundamentally not of them, and was becoming less so all the time.
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― Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
― Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
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In the ordinary jumble of my literary drawer, I sometimes find texts I wrote ten, fifteen, or even more years ago. And many of them seem to me written by a stranger: I simply do not recognize myself in them. There was a person who wrote them, and it was I. I experienced them, but it was in another life, from which I just woke up, as if from someone else's dream.
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― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
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