"The great authors share their souls with us- "literally."
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"Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?"
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"There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus."
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"The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself."
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"If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established."
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"For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should never die, was dead; and I wondered yet more that myself, who was to him a second self, could live, he being dead. Well said one of his friend, "Thou half of my soul"; for I felt that my soul and his soul were "one soul in two bodies": and therefore was my life a horror to me, because I would not live halved. And therefore perchance I feared to die, lest he whom I had much loved should die wholly."
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"The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls."
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"That which oppresses me, is it my soul trying to come out in the open, or the soul of the world knocking at my heart for entrance?"
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"I write Not For the sake of glory Not For the sake of fame Not For the sake of success But for the sake of my soul"
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"They were two ruined souls doomed to wander their minds, if not the earth, trying to remember from whence they came."
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"I nodded, chewing my own syrup-soaked bite. "But surely that's not all there is to it. I mean, really? A big picnic? That's Avari's master plan? That makes him sound about as dangerous as Yogi Bear." Tod shrugged. "Yeah. If Yogi were a soul-sucking, body-stealing, boyfriend-snatching, damned-soul-torturing evil demon from another world. Besides, what else could he be planning?"
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"For those who may not know this, Madeline recruited me specifically to help hunt and take out a serial soul thief-" "I call him Cap'n Crunch," Luca interrupted, and was rewarded with a roomful of frowns. "You know. Because he's a cereal thief?"
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"We can not imitate great souls. However to study, analyse and imbibe the principles they teach and embody, is the path of progress."
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"A great soul is called Saragrahi that means one who is always looking for the essence of every situation that comes before us."
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"How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn't touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough, past you, to other things?"
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"To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul."
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"The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls."
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"Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower."
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"In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul."
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"One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface."
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