"Life is not the body; it is not the mind; it is not the soul. It is a force."
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"and she realized that she (her soul) was not at all involved, only her body, her body alone. The body that had betrayed her and that she had sent out into the world among other bodies."
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"The body was a cage, and inside that cage was something which looked, listened, feared, thought and marveled; that something, that remainder left over after the body had been accounted for, was the soul."
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"How did the senator know that children meant happiness? Could he see into their souls? What if the moment they were out of sight, three of them jumped the fourth and began beating him up?"
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"What really brought out the voice that I have, my soul voice and true voice, was really not getting any work and being very sad and being poor and having to sit with that. I think that's where the blues comes from."
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"The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain."
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"The spirit in which one earns his daily bread means as much to his soul as the bread itself may mean to his body."
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"The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul capable of ecstasy and transport must pay its price in suffering; he who walks upon the heights must sometimes grovel in the dust."
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"Silence gives us a new outlook on everything. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say but what God says to us and through us."
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"Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune."
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"Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space."
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"But does not happiness come from the soul within?"
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"All we are is in the soul."
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"The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is a mere reflex of the lives of others. It migrates into their bodies, and identifying its existence with their existence, finds its own happiness in increasing and prolonging their pleasures, in extinguishing or solacing their pains."
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"The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul."
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"My soul seemed as foul as smoke from burning cat fur."
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"Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill every time."
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"[Richard M. Nixon was] a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad."
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"I have a body and I have a soul. And my body belongs to the faith - in fact, the church - into which it was born, the Methodist Church."
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"Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it."
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