“Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Raymond, p. 295 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t80k3mq4s;view=1up;seq=337
Raymond, or Life and Death (1916)

Source: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barret Barrett 1845-1846 Vol I

Source: The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999), Ch.9 Deep Community
Context: Without apoptosis, life would not be possible.... when cells lose their ability to die, they run rampant, assuming that life-threatening form we call cancer.... The process of apoptosis by which life and development are governed is profoundly communal.... Cells... need to be "encouraged" to live.
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990), Ch. 11 : Money Et Cetera, p. 100

The Renaissance in India (1918)
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“Life without prejudice,” p. 12.
Life Without Prejudice (1965)