„The Soul selects her own Society —Then — shuts the Door —To her divine Majority —Present no more“

— Emily Dickinson

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„Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace.“
— Louisa May Alcott
„And he made love to her, offering his body in both tenderness and anger, unsure which was the best way to pass her bits of his soul so that she could patch her own with it“
— Jodi Picoult
„She was the captain of her soul“
— William Faulkner