[Kay] was not at all an unpleasant person really, but clever, quick, proud, passionate and ambitious. He was one of those people who would be neither a follower nor a leader, but only an aspiring heart, impatient in the failing body which imprisoned it.
T. H. WhiteYou could not give up a human heart as you could give up drinking. The drink was yours, and you could give it up: but your loverโs soul was not your own: it was not at your disposal; you had a duty towards it.
T. H. White...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption.
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