"What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul."
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"Our inability to think beyond our own species, or to be able to co-habit with other life forms in what is patently a massive collaborative quest for survival, is surely a malady that pervades the human soul."
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"You are the Master of your Fate, the Captain of your Soul."
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"Principally, and first of all, I resign my soul to the Almighty Being who gave it, and my body I commit to the dust, relying on the merits of Jesus Christ for the pardon of my sins."
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"To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul."
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"You've got to show your soul otherwise you're just a piece of equipment."
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"My soul Is Naked. It wears The Transparent Garment Of Love."
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"Stars open among the lilies. Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens? This is the silence of astounded souls."
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""Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls.""
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"Sugar crystallizes something in our American Soul. It is emblematic of all Industrial Processes. And of the idea of becoming white. White Being equated with pure and ‘true’ it takes a lot of energy to turn brown things into white things. A lot of pressure."
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"Did you know destruction of the soul is not the ending to life: Fear not of the Antichrist."
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"...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair."
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"Embrace your grief. For there, your soul will grow."
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"Hard work is good for the soul, and it keeps you from feeling sorry for yourself because you don’t have time."
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"When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune."
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"Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder."
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"Mirth cannot move a soul in agony."
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"Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them."
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"How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into."
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"Death - Death can be faced, dealt with, adjusted to, outlived. It's the not knowing that destroys interminably... This being suspended in suspense; waiting - weightless, How does one face the faceless, adjust to nothing? Waiting implies something to wait for. Is there? There is One. One who knows... I rest my soul on that."
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