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

Soul, Memory, Expectation, Emotion

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

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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..."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"She had something more than material value ~ she had a soul, no money could buy."

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"I don't think I do have a soul."

Al Purdy, Canadian Poet

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"Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Why is there so much problem just to know one's own Soul? The Soul resides in one's own abode (body), but one doesn't know it and then he says, 'I know this and I know that so'. Instead why don't you get to know your own 'Self'?"

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"The authentic self is the soul made visible."

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"I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear."

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"There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows."

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"Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return."

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"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms."

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"An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry."

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"He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow."

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"And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment."

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"Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet."

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"I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best."

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