"My soul's the present shadow of a presence gone."
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"I'm something that I used to be. I'm never where I feel I am, and if I seek myself, I don't know who's seeking me. My boredom with everything has numbed me. I feel banished from my soul."
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"Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow."
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"I am a hopeless materialist. I see the soul as nothing else than the sim of activities of the organism plus personal habits - plus inherited habits, memories, experiences, of the organism. I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed."
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"The soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these - that where a man can live, there - if he will - he can also live well."
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"The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another."
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"When the children had completed an absorbing bit of work, they appeared rested and deeply pleased. It almost seemed as if a road had opened up within their souls that led to all their latent powers, revealing the better part of themselves. They exhibited a great affability to everyone, put themselves out to help others and seemed full of good will."
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"Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body."
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"Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul."
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"See them demons and them omens staring at you, mind control, they want your soul. If he don't see a dollar, somebody visiting Satan"
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"I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted."
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"No one else can hold your hand or take this voyage of the soul for you."
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"I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be."
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"Hope is the second soul of the unhappy."
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"Writers are the engineers of human souls."
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"The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written."
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"I've always thought my flowers had souls."
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"Before we can work on the problems, we have to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation."
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"It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the power thus conferred will not belong to us. We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets of that to which we have given our souls."
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"In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity."
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