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Henry Miller Novelist, Essayist
Soul

"If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want to laugh more. I don't say that God is one grand laugh: I say that you've got to laugh hard before you can get anywhere near God. My whole aim in life is to get near to God, that is, to get nearer to myself. That's why it doesn't matter to me what road I take. But music is very important. Music is a tonic for the pineal gland. Music isn't Bach or Beethoven; music is the can opener of the soul. It makes you terribly quiet inside, makes you aware that there's a roof to your being."

Important Soul Laughing
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Henry Miller Novelist, Essayist
Soul

"They were painfully clean. But inwardly they stank. Never once had they opened the door which leads to the soul; never once did they dream of taking a blind leap into the dark."

Soul Doors
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James Russell Lowell Poet, Essayist
Soul

"Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life; for the more sympathies we gain or awaken for what is beautiful, by so much deeper will be our sympathy for that which is most beautiful,--the human soul!"

Heart Beautiful Soul
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James Shirley Playwright, Poet
Soul

"When our souls shall leave this dwelling, the glory of one fair and virtuous action is above all the 'scutcheons on our tomb, or silken banners over us."

Soul Action Dwelling
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James Truslow Adams Author, Historian
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"It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die. Without Jefferson the new nation might have lost its soul. Without Hamilton it would assuredly have been killed in body."

Men Soul Vision
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Friedrich Schiller Playwright, Poet
Soul

"A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the natural disfavor."

Soul Grace Triumph
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Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist, Philosopher
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"‎Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer. But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice. In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary--never--no one. For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, forasmuch as in beggary as I am ready to be the first to humiliate myself."

Men Soul Vices
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Khalil Gibran Poet, Writer
Soul

"The thirst of soul is sweeter than the wine of material things, and the fear of spirit is dearer than the security of the body."

Soul Fear Wine
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Khalil Gibran Poet, Writer
Soul

"Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks."

Soul Faces Foam
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