"Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave."

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"Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave."

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

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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

Maureen O'Hara, Irish Actress

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"No beautiful aspect of humankind is foreign to person with a lucid soul."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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"To breath the air of Paris preserves the soul."

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"The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Life is a sacred-spirit."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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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."

Nikki Rowe, American Writer

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

Al Purdy, Canadian Poet

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"Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail."

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"I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence."

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"Nothing is proved, all is permitted."

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"In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance."

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"Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason."

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"Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes."

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"Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely."

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"Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave."

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