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“For who could see the passage of a goddess unless she wished his mortal eyes aware?”
― Homer, Homer: The Odessey

“Are you flesh and blood, Odysseus, to endure more than a man can? Do you never tire? God, look at you, iron is what you're made of. Here we all are, half dead with weariness, falling asleep over the oars, and you say "No landing" - no firm island earth where we could make a quiet supper. No: pull out to sea, you say, with night upon us - just as before, but wandering now, and lost.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“I take our emotional life to be 'higher' than the life of our sensations - not, of course, morally higher, but richer, more varied, more subtle. And this is a higher level which nearly all of us know. And I believe that if anyone watches carefully the relation between his emotions and his sensations he will discover the following facts: (1) that the nerves do respond, and in a sense most adequately and exquisitely, to the emotions; (2) that their resources are far more limited, the possible variations of sense far fewer, than those of emotion; and (3) that the senses compensate for this by using the same sensation to express more than one emotion - even, as we have seen, to express opposite emotions.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

“And Odysseus let the bright molten tears run down his cheeks, weeping the way a wife mourns for her lord on the lost field where he has gone down fighting the day of wrath that came upon his children. At sight of the man panting and dying there, she slips down to enfold him, crying out; then feels the spears, prodding her back and shoulders, and goes bound into slavery and grief.”
― Homer, The Odyssey