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"Protect everything, detect everything, contain everything - obsessional society. Save time. Save money. Save our souls - phobic society. Low tar. Low energy. Low calories. Low sex. Low speed - anorexic society."
"[He] had a hole in his soul, the kind the devil loves to find. It's like an open doorway for him, lets him enter in and do his wicked work."
"Dance is the landscape of man's soul."
"We must meet hate with love. We must meet physical force with soul force."
"For who in fact seeks the salvation of souls through indulgences, and not instead money for his coffers? This is evident from the way indulgences are preached . For the commissioners and preachers do nothing but extol indulgences and incite."
"There is on earth among all dangers, no more dangerous thing than a richly endowed and adroid reason, especially if she enters into spiritual matters which concern the soul and God. For it is more possible to teach an ass to read than to blind such a reason and lead it right; for reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed."
"I think when people get stuck in situations that go against their soul, they can't be happy. That's all."
"You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt,I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me."
"It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world."
"Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell. Death separates the soul from the body, but love separates all things from the soul."
"Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in which all things are one. And there it comes to rest in God."
"The most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being overthrown by its own weakness."
"But just make someone who has fallen in love listen to his stomach rumble, and the unity of body and soul, that lyrical illusion of the age of science , instantly fades away."
"Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair?"
"But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable."
"I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul!"
"He had shown her all the workings of his soul, mistaking this for love."
"Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad."
"My soul is my great asset and my great misfortune."
"And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first."
