"Strength and strength's will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of sneaking souls."
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"I have no desire to make windows into men's souls."
"Soul's escaping through this hole that is gaping"
"Dreams are the guiding words of the Soul."
"The angels are a strange genus: they are precisely what they are and cannot be anything else. They are in themselves soulless beings who represent nothing but the thoughts and intuitions of their Lord."
"This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise."
"If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death."
"If we could learn to live from the level of the soul, we would see that the best most luminous part of ourselves is connected to all the rhythms of the universe. We would truly know ourselves as the miracle-makers we are capable of being."
"The small things you do everyday- smiling at a stranger or paying someone a compliment -bring you closer to your spiritual truth , the purity of your soul"
"Soul loss is regarded as the most serious diagnosis and the single greatest cause of premature death or serious illness by the traditionals, and it's not even mentioned in our Western medical textbooks."
"I'm a firm believer in research, but I'm also a firm believer in utilizing the instincts that are within your soul or in your body or in your stomach, wherever they reside."
"No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness."
"Life The machine The human soul A 75mm breech My portrait"
"If I'm going to make music and put my heart and soul into this and dedicate my whole life to it, I want to be making something that 15, 20, 30 years from now, somebody is listening to and that is a staple of the time it came out."
"And now listen carefully. You in others-this is your soul. This is what you are. This is what your consciousness has breathed and lived on and enjoyed throughout your life-your soul, your immortality, your life in others. And what now? You have always been in others and you will remain in others. And what does it matter to you if later on that is called your memory? This will be you-the you that enters the future and becomes a part of it."
"My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger."
"Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art."
"I'd like to be remembered for being a good-hearted soul that left this planet better than I found it."
"The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse."
"If I had a soul I sold it for pretty words If I had a body I used it up spurting my essence Allen Ginsberg warns you dont follow my path to extinction"