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"But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end."
"At some future day it will be proved, I cannot say when and where, that the human soul is, while in earth life, already in an uninterrupted communication with those living in another world."
"Ah! American cigarettes are like the American soul - sweet and light."
"There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe."
"How does one cure the soul? Through the senses"
"The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away."
"What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul."
"The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul."
"Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful."
"That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography."
"Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them"
"A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul."
"Forgiveness proceeds from a generous soul."
"The world is a living being - one nature, one soul. Keep that in mind."
"It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul."
"I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul."
"We must not creep along when our souls cry out for us to soar!"
"One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears; not in months and years, or physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by dates."
"Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives."
"I say one thing, you write another, and those who read you understand still something else! I say: cross, death, kingdom of heaven, God...and what do you understand? Each of you attaches his own suffering, interests and desires to each of these sacred words, and my words disappear, my soul is lost. I can't stand it any longer!"
