"Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you."

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"Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you."

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"The Soul is the voice of the body's interests."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood."

Saint Augustine, Algerian Saint

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"Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation."

George Eliot, British Author

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"Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"Walk neither faster nor slower than your own soul, because it is your soul that will teach you the usefulness of each step you take."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

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"For what is truth? In matters of religion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is the ultimate sensation. In matters of art, it is one's last mood."

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"God and other artists are always a little obscure....."

God

"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."

Philosophy

"There is a great deal to be said in favour of reading a novel backwards. The last page is as a rule the most interesting, and when one begins with the catastrophe or the dA©nouement one feels on pleasant terms of equality with the author. It is like going behind the scenes of a theatre. One is no longer taken in, and the hair-breadth escapes of the hero and the wild agonies of the heroine leave one absolutely unmoved. One knows the jealously guarded secret, and one can afford to smile at the quite unnecessary anxiety that the puppets of fiction always consider it their duty to display."

Literature

"There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful."

Philosophy

"Nay, without thought or conscious desire, might not things external to ourselves vibrate in unison with our moods and passions, atom calling to atom in secret love or strange affinity?"

Philosophy

"When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy."

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"Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art."

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"Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting."

Art

"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."

Art