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1 " There had been nothing between them, and yet they had come together, exchanging their nakedness repeatedly.... She had never seen him, he had never seen her, they had met in the dark and had fought in the dark, not knowing whom they met or whom they fought. And now she saw, and turned silent in seeing. For she had been wrong. She had said he was something he was not; she had felt familiar with him. Whereas he was apart all the while, living as she never lived, feeling as she never felt. "
― D.H. Lawrence , Odour of Chrysanthemums
2 " She knew she submitted to life, which was her immediate master. But from her death, her ultimate master, she winced with fear and shame. "
