„Man, the two-fold creature, apprehendsThe two-fold manner, in and outwardly,And nothing in the world comes single to him.“

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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„Do not yet see, that, if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„God be thanked, the meanest of his creaturesBoasts two soul-sides,—one to face the world with,One to show a woman when he loves her!“
— Robert Browning
„[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him.“
— Louisa May Alcott