"Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all."
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"Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime."
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"A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul."
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"The Soul is the voice of the body's interests."
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"What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another."
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"The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft."
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"I've learned of life this bitter truth Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude to find repose, But rather, Build within thy own soul Fortresses!"
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"We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul."
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"The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the soul."
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"My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions."
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"Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green."
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"I saw deep in the eyes of the animals the human soul look out upon me. I saw where it was born deep down under feathers and fur, or condemned for a while to roam four-footed among the brambles,I caught the clinging mute glance of the prisoner and swore that I would be faithful."
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"In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the instrument has lost its strings, or is out of tune, it does not follow that the musician has lost his skill."
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"I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding"
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"I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body."
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"To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together."
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"no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any"
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"Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other "higher" ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone."
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"Those to whom worshiping is a window, to open but also to shut, have not yet visited the house of their souls whose windows are open from dawn to dawn."
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"In the depth of my soul there is A wordless song - a song that lives In the seed of my heart. It refuses to melt with ink on Parchment; it engulfs my affection In a transparent cloak and flows, But not upon my lips."
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