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How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions.


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This page presents the quote "How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions.". Author of this quote is D. H. Lawrence. This quote is about obscene, obsession, ideas, touched,.