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“The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass between humans, I marvel at the growth of conscience, at the persistence of reason in...”
“I peered deeper and found my soul. A little tattered and with some holes, but there all the same. It had always been there, I realized with shock.”
“But the problem is to make the soul into a monster”
“All you can ever achieve is a sense of your soul. You gain little glimpses of its light, colors, and contours. You feel the inspiration of its possibilities and the wonder of its mysteries.”
“Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occ...”
“My soul, where are you? Do you hear me? I speak, I call you - are you there? I have returned, I am here again. I have shaken the dust of all the lands from my feet, and I have come to you, I am wit...”
“Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?”
“Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which ...”
“Your soul is the priestess of memory, selecting, sifting, and ultimately gathering your vanishing days toward presence.”
“Is that all souls are for? For when we die?" "No. They're for living, too.”
“The soul is the weariest part of the body.”
“Crows dont take from you, Dean said. They give your soul wings.”
“We have a soul at times.No ones got it non-stop,for keeps.Day after day,year after yearmay pass without it.Sometimesit will settle for awhileonly in childhoods fears and raptures.Sometimes only in ...”
“There is more to a soul than what others see”
“Words are truly the image of the soul.”
“Each soul has its own note to sing in the divine chorus and no voice is more important than another. (94)”
“At the conclusion of all our studies we must try once again to experience the human soul as soul, and not just as a buzz of bioelectricity; the human will as will, and not just a surge of hormones;...”
“The Soul selects her own Society.”
“There was something much greater she needed to feed her soul, and perhaps one day soon she would go...”
“Whatever we may say about the soul going to the sky... we know there is no sky but only an atmosphere.”