"Bodies always understand each other, even when the souls do not."
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"Our souls are prisoners of the terror of death, and the day is beautiful."
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"When we marry, we are authorized to take possession of the other person, body and soul."
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"We can never found the soul, just as we can never wound God, but we become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched, even when we have everything we need in order to be happy."
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"A man only has a soul to be won or lost."
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"fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul."
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"The soul loves all things beautiful and deep."
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"Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live."
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"Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; the subject, not the citizen... The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys."
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"You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils, Attend the poor souls from their birth."
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"Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world."
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"The soul of man... is a portion or a copy of the soul of the Universe and is joined together on principles and in proportions corresponding to those which govern the Universe."
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"Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own."
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"The living voice is that which sways the soul."
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"Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures."
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"Italy offers one the most priceless of all one's possessions - one's own soul."
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"He needs to go rub his soul against life."
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"I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book."
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"Those first few weeks are an unearthly season. From the outside you remain so ordinary, no one can tell from looking that you have experienced an earthquake of the soul. You've been torn asunder, invested with an ancient, incomprehensible magic. It's the one thing that we never quite get over: that we contain our own future."
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"Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for a tasty meal. Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness."
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