"In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song."
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"It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it."
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"Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface."
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"I really respond to putting myself out of my own depth and finding my feet."
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"The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent."
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"An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time"
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"The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart"
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"Stilled legendary depth: It was as deep as England. It held Pike too immense to stir, so immense and old That past nightfall I dared not cast."
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"Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me."
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"If there are ripples on the surface of a lake, we cannot see the depth. Similarly unless the mind is restful, we cannot experience the harmony and union within us."
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"Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience."
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"It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean."
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"Healing proceeds from the depths to the heights."
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"So the hours are pretty good then?' he resumed. The Vogon stared down at him as sluggish thoughts moiled around in the murky depths. Yeah,' he said, 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy."
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"The depths of the sea are only water after all."
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"I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa."
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"The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth."
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"Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path... But each of us - experiments of the depths - strives toward his own destiny. We can understand one another; but each of us is able to interpret himself to himself alone."
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"The scientist is activated by a wonder and awe before the mysterious comprehensibility of the universe which is yet finally beyond his grasp. In its profoundest depths it is inaccessible to man."
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"I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth."
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