"The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us."
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"A millennial belief in a Holy God may have the effect of deepening the soul, but it is also obviously archaic, and modern influences would presently bring me up to date and reveal how antiquated my origins were. To turn away from those origins, however, has always seemed to me an utter impossibility. It would be a treason to my first consciousness to un-Jew myself."
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"Literature is the thought of thinking souls."
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"I will be waiting here.... For your silence to break, For your soul to shake, For your love to wake!"
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"I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within."
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"I'll never fall in love again... it's like having two souls at the same time."
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"He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul."
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"To kill our dream life would be to kill ourselves, to mutilate our soul. Dreaming is the one thing we have that's really ours, invulnerably and inalterably ours."
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""Sweep me up and send me where you please." For there I will retain my spirit, tranquil and content, as long as it can feel and act in harmony with its own nature. Is a change of place enough reason for my soul to become unhappy and worn, for me to become depressed, humbled, cowering, and afraid? Can you discover any reasons for this?"
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"Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives."
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"Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted."
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"She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever."
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"Anything that I write comes from the soul."
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"For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives after it, is striving after something divine. True painting is only the image of the perfection of God, a shadow of the pencil with which he paints, a melody, a striving after harmony."
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"The foundation of friendship demands the greatest likeness of human souls and hearts."
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"The true basis of religion is not belief, but intuitive experience. Intuition is the soul’s power of knowing God. To know what religion is really all about, one must know God."
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"Loyalty... A will, a decision, a resolution of the soul."
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"This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related."
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"A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul."
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"Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions."
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