I’ve been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I’m quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I’m one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.

Lawrence rejects the heroic myth that grew around him after the Arab Revolt and the publication of accounts that cast him as a romantic “superman.” The statement is both self-protective and polemical: he insists on ordinariness as a corrective to public overpraise, while also implying that the real “artistic results” (his writing, or the crafted narrative of events) should not be confused with personal greatness. The final sentence underscores a moral stance—truthfulness about the self—as a rare virtue in a culture eager for legends. It also hints at his discomfort with celebrity and the psychological burden of being turned into a symbol.