"Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul."

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"Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul."

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"The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them."

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"Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman."

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"Life is a sacred-spirit."

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"My soul is a pale, tenuous membrane..."That was pleasing: a thin, tenuous membrane. It had the right anatomical quality. Tight blown, quivering in the blast of noisy life. It was time for him to descend from the serene empyrean of words into the actual vortex. He went down slowly. "My soul is a thin, tenuous membrane..."

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"There are not many things finer in our murderous species than this noble curiosity, this restless and reckless passion to understand."

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"The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers."

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"But the new generation had tasted the wine of philosophy, and from this time onward the rich youth of Rome went eagerly to Athens and Rhodes to exchange their oldest faith for the newest doubts."

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"A man is as old as his arteries and as young as his ideas."

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"Religion arises not out of sacerdotal invention or chicanery, but out of the persistent wonder, fear, insecurity, hopefulness and loneliness of man."

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