"I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul."
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"When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea develop its warmth, and it is hottest (which is to say, exerting its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already once again in decline."
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"To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness"
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"Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply... humanity. One must be superior to humanity in power, in loftiness of soul- in contempt."
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"But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!"
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"I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goeth he willingly over the bridge."
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"In true love it is the soul that envelops the body."
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"A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks."
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"Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry."
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"The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland, the world, or finally, for the really arrogant - I mean our modern pessimists - by the Good God himself."
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"I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo."
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"Remember that you must never sell your soul. Never accept payment in advance.... Never give a work to the printer before it is finished. This is the worst thing you can do.... It constitutes the murder of your own ideas."
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"He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly."
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"The soul is an embryo in the body of Man, and the day of death is the Day of awakening, for it is the Great era of labour and the rich Hour of creation."
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"You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth."
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"I am bored with gabbers and their gab; my soul abhors them. . . . Is there any place where there is no traffic in empty talk? Is there on this earth one who does not worship himself talking?"
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"This for God and this for myself; This for my soul, and this other for my body?"
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"if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing"
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"My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me that the lamp which I carry does not belong to me, and the song that I sing was not generated from within me."
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"Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men."
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