"If you want to be surrounded by Souls, become identified with your Soul. It takes one to know one!"
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"There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!"
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"Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness."
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"The most potent and acceptable prayer is the prayer that leaves the best effects. I don't mean it must immediately fill the soul with desire . . . The best effects are those that are followed up by actions-when the soul not only desires the honor of God, but really strives for it."
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"When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness."
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"When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth."
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"Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it."
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"The limbs will quiver and move after the soul is gone."
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"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul."
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"It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love."
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"The miser, poor fool, not only starves his body, but also his own soul."
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"The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck."
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"Every man has a coward and hero in his soul."
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"It's personal freedom, not hundred dollar bills that lights the soul's cigar."
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"Early religions were like muddy ponds with lots of foliage. Concealed there, the fish of the soul could splash and feed. Eventually, however, religions became aquariums. Then hatcheries. From farm fingerling to frozen fish stick is a short swim."
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"The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry."
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"A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind."
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"I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the jewels of wisdom, patience, and above all with a love of liberty."
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"I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence."
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"Sometimes the impact of Mozart's music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy."
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