"There are two infinities that confuse me: the one in my soul devours me; the one around me will crush me"
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"The great soul of power extends far beyond states, to every domain of life, from families to international affairs. And throughout, every form of authority and domination bears a severe burden of proof. It is not self-legitimizing. And when it cannot bear the burden, as is commonly the case, it should be dismantled."
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"What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?"
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"I believe the causes that create them [serial killers] are theological in nature, rather than societal. I believe they make a conscious choice to erase God's thumbprint from their souls."
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"Every sacred book, successively, has been accepted in the faith that it was to be the final resting-place of the sojourning soul;but after all, it was but a caravansary which supplied refreshment to the traveler, and directed him farther on his way to Isphahan or Bagdat. Thank God, no Hindoo tyranny prevailed at the framing of the world, but we are freemen of the universe, and not sentenced to any caste."
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"What may be the significance of so many forms of "spirituality" on this planet that are antagonistic to "life" - and Christianity at the head of that list, with its "calumny" against life, its faith that just because nothing in life is eternal therefore life itself contains no value, nothing that makes it worth living, investing our souls in, committing our consciences to?"
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"There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded."
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"What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it."
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"For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I cried, "Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks." Thus I became a madman."
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"All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of souls who preceded you."
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"The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been."
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"The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable."
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"But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people."
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"Had I no other proof of the immortality of the soul than the oppression of the just and the triumph of the wicked in this world, this alone would prevent my having the least doubt of it. So shocking a discord amidst a general harmony of things would make me naturally look for a cause; I should say to myself we do not cease to exist with this life; everything reassumes its order after death."
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"Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls."
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"It is not right, my fellow-countrymen, you who know very well all the crimes committed in our name. It's not at all right that you do not breathe a word about them to anyone, not even to your own soul, for fear of having to stand in judgment of yourself. I am willing to believe that at the beginning you did not realize what was happening; later, you doubted whether such things could be true; but now you know, and still you hold your tongues."
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"I have an old soul. I don't know any real-life lingo, so I have to take it from movies."
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"A soul disengaged from the world is a heavenly one; and then are we ready for heaven when our heart is there before us."
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"Says he foun' he jus' got a little piece of a great big soul. Says a wilderness ain't no good, 'cause his little piece of a soul wasn't no good 'less it was with the rest, an' was whole."
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"Now that I know that I've needed you so, help me, Jesus. My soul's in your hand."
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