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"We are talking about an artist; and for the enjoyment of the artist the mask must be to some extent moulded on the face. What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him; he can only make his effects out of some of the materials of his soul."
"Perhaps living souls had greater phantom powers than the dead."
"The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with it. Recognition of this contact is the fact that even the soul does not know of itself. Hence it must remain unknown. That would be sad only if there were anything apart from the soul, but there is nothing else."
"Yes, you who must leave everything that you cannot control, It begins with your family, and soon it comes round to your soul. Well I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned: When you're not feeling holy your loneliness says that you've sinned."
"Little Alice fell d o w n the hOle, bumped her head and bruised her soul"
"I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought."
"Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body."
"Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended."
"I have seen the truth. It is not as though I had invented it in my mind. I have seen it, SEEN IT and the living image of it has filled my soul forever."
"At ebb tide I wrote a line upon the sand, and gave it all my heart and all my soul. At flood tide I returned to read what I had inscribed and found my ignorance upon the shore."
"Never prayed to God, I prayed to Gotti, that's right it's wicked, that's life I live it. Ain't askin' for forgiveness for my sins. I gotta get my soul right, I gotta get these Devils out my life. Lord forgive him, He got them dark forces in. connected to the high power. 666. I can introduce you to evil."
"Yes, I am so free. And what a superb absence is my soul."
"I sing the progress of a deathless soul."
"Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols."
"Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not."
"We have to find a way to not refuse to see where we are, what we are doing, and yet we must still live. And making sure to live - to go through life not around it - was always hard. Making sure to be in the vale of soul - making - as John Keats put it. Now it's insanely hard."
"Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation."
"You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There's not one part that He doesn't want to make completely whole."
"You can have Jesus in your spirit and have an outrageous mess in your soul, and if you don't know what that's called, it's called religion."
"There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul."
