itself quotes, aphorisms, statements, say
Becoming Light Poems New and Selected by Erica Jong ...the ocean kept falling into itself, gathering itself up, and falling into itself again.
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche It is some basic certainty which the noble soul has about itself, something which does not allow itself to be sought out or found or perhaps even to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself.
William Blake Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
David Herbert Lawrence I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
The Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot Desire itself is movement
Not in itself desirable;
Love is itself unmoving,
Only the cause and end of movement,
Timeless, and undesiring
Except in the aspect of time
Caught in the form of limitation
Between un-being and being. (V)
Robert Haden If a Tom cat had a piece of emery fixed to its paw it would be able not only to wash itself but to shave itself as well.

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