"Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence."
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"Can you make your soul embrace the One and not lose it?"
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"When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating."
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"Carrying body and soul and embracing the one, Can you avoid separation?"
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"It is written that the last enemy to be vanquished is death. We should begin early in life to vanquish this enemy by obliterating every trace of the fear of death from our minds. Then can we turn to life and fill the whole horizon of our souls with it, turn with added zest to all the serious tasks which it imposes and to the pure delights which here and there it affords."
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"Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package."
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"Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we belittle ourselves. When we undertake the pilgrimage, it's not just to escape the tyranny at home but also to reach to the depths of our souls. The day arrives when the guilty must return to save those who could not find the courage to leave."
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"When you do not know what to do or which way to turn, smile. This will relax your mind and let the sunshine of happiness into your soul."
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"The best thing you can hope for, when you make a movie and you put your soul into it, is that people respond to it well."
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"...most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by."
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"I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall die, and die conclusively. How can we face such a fact, and not live in fear?"
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"I want to marry a [guy], so i can rest my soul with [him] till we both get old. This can't go on all the time-- all this franticness and jumping around. We've got to go someplace, find something."
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"Give to each emotion a personality, to each state of mind a soul."
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"I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body."
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"I walk along a street and see in the faces of the passersby not the expression they really have but the expression they would have for me if they knew about my life and how I am, if I carried, transparent in my gestures and my face, the ridiculous, timid abnormality of my soul."
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"The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue of emotional experience. It's the weight of our consciousness of the world, a shortness of breath in our soul."
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"I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb."
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"If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that."
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"memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away"
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"I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope."
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