"France may one day exist no more, but the Dordogne will live on just as dreams live on and nourish the souls of men."
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"I like the one about the little soulworms that fly out of the nest for the resurrection."
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"Sometimes we talked about the nature of the human soul and about the Cosmic Unity of souls that I had believed in so firmly when I was 15 years old. My mother did not like the phrase Cosmic Unity. It was too pretentious. She preferred to call it a world soul."
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"If mankind is to escape its programmed self-extinction the God who saves us will not descend from the machine: he will rise up again in the human soul."
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"My soul is not a palace of the past."
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"Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity."
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"Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls."
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"All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul."
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"Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul, An' risen up earth's greatest nation."
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"Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not."
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"I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I was hearing, it was all about Black music, about soul music."
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"You could split hairs and bring up words like 'doo-wop' and terms like 'soul' or 'R&B', but I think pop music is what you want it to be - that's why it's pop."
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"Thus, seamed with many scars Bursting these prison bars, Up to its native stars My soul ascended! There from the flowing bowl Deep drinks the warrior's soul, Skoal! to the Northland! skoal! Thus the tale ended."
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"If you went in search of it, you would not find the boundaries of the soul, though you traveled every road-so deep is its measure [logos]."
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"A dry soul is wisest and best."
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""Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?"
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"Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside"
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"The noble soul reveres itself"
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""God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?"
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"Quidquid luce fuit tenebris agit: but also the other way around. What we experience in dreams, so long as we experience it frequently, is in the end just as much a part of the total economy of our soul as anything we "really" experience: because of it we are richer or poorer, are sensitive to one need more or less, and are eventually guided a little by our dream-habits in broad daylight and even in the most cheerful moments occupying our waking spirit."
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