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D.H. Lawrence
“After a short time, she was not very much interested in being good. Her soul was in quest of something, which was not just being good, and doing one's best. No, she wanted something else: something that was not her ready-made duty. Everything seemed to be merely a matter of social duty, and never of her self. They talked about her soul, but somehow never managed to rouse or implicate her soul. As yet her soul was not brought in at all.”
D.H. Lawrence, The Rainbow

D.H. Lawrence
“The universe shows us two aspects: on one side it is physically wasting, on the other it is spiritually ascending.”
D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

Iris Murdoch
“We've all got things to cry about. Don't you think I could drown the world with tears if I started on my own woes?”
Iris Murdoch, A Word Child

Sigrid Nunez
“Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeling that the story evokes, the questions that rise to your mind, rather than the fictional events described. They should teach you this in school, but they don’t.”
Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables

Iris Murdoch
“There had been anguish, fear, indecision, then gradually the brightness of her presence cast beforehand, obliterating all else. Then I was with her and there was strange blankness, and utter calm of delight. Suddenly, down into the furthest crannies of being all was well. It was all so strangely simple too, with a blameless simplicity as of childhood.”
Iris Murdoch, A Word Child
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