"Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes."
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"There was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he could not love her. Perhaps she had not in herself that which he wanted. It was the deepest motive of her soul, this self-mistrust. It was so deep she dared neither realise nor acknowledge. Perhaps she was deficient. Like an infinitely subtle shame, it kept her always back. If it were so, she would do without him. She would never let herself want him. She would merely see."
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"You don't learn algebra with your blessed soul. Can't you look at it with your clear simple wits?"
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"How can any man be free without a soul of his own, that he believes in and won't sell at any price?"
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"When the emotional soul receives a wounding shock, the soul seems to recover as the body recovers. But this is only in appearance. Slowly, slowly the wound to the soul begins to make itself felt, like a bruise, which only slowly deepens its terrible ache, till it fills all the psyche. And when we think we have recovered and forgotten, it is then that the terrible after-effects have to be encountered at their worst."
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"Nobody can have the soul of me. My mother has had, and nobody can have it again. Nobody can come into my very self again, and breathe me like an atmosphere."
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"The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her."
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"That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people."
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"The colors of light are infinite through refraction, yet they all come from the same source. Thus I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul, nor fail to identify with the most virtuous."
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"I call the light and high aspects of my being spirit and the dark and heavy aspects soul."
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"What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us if it were not the source of sensations."
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"The imagined beings have their insides on the outside; they are visible souls. And man as a whole, Man pitted against the universe, have we seen him at all till we see that he is like a hero in a fairy tale?"
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"Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul"
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"Your body is the child of your soul."
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"Let us reach for the world that ought to be -- that spark of the divine that still stirs within each of our souls."
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"There's no one who I believe has ever captured the soul of America more profoundly than Abraham Lincoln has."
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"We have to have a president who is clear that you don't deal with Russia based on staring into his eyes and seeing his soul. You deal with Russia based on, what are your - what are the national security interests of the United States of America? And we have to recognize that the way they've been behaving lately demands a sharp response from the international community and our allies."
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"Who was it who said, 'I hold the buying of more books than one can peradventure read, as nothing less than the soul's reaching towards infinity; which is the only thing that raises us above the beasts that perish.'? Whoever it was, I agree with him."
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"Problems of the heart always bruised the soul."
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"I only write to understand myself better... I don't try to show how intelligent or how cultivated I am, I just try to share my soul. Sharing is part of life."
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