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D. H. Lawrence Novelist, Poet
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"Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description."

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Patti Smith Musician
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"Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech. (1976 Penthouse interview)"

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Paulo Coelho Writer
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"Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth."

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Plutarch Philosopher, Historian
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"Prosperity has this property, it puffs up narrow Souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and look down upon the World with Contempt; but a truly noble and resolved Spirit appears greatest in Distress, and then becomes more bright and conspicuous."

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Plato Philosopher
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"...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen."

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Plotinus Philosopher
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"A dogma recognized throughout antiquity... (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and... afterwards... passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials."

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Dan Wells Author
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"I stared at her closely, studying her face, her eyes, everything. This was the angel that tamed a demon; the soul that trapped him and held him with a power he'd never felt before. Love."

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Albert Einstein Physicist
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"Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning."

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Anton Chekhov Playwright, Short Story Writer
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"Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person."

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Anton Chekhov Playwright, Short Story Writer
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"For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace."

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Aristotle Philosopher
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"And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the more he deserves, and he that is best deserves most. Therefore the truly great-souled man must be a good man. Indeed greatness in each of the virtues would seem to go with greatness of soul."

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