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"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose."

"The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye."

"The most beautiful rainbow is the one inside your soul."

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

"Things of themselves cannot touch the soul at all. They have no entry to the soul, and cannot turn or move it. The soul alone turns and moves itself, making all externals presented to it cohere with the judgements it thinks worthy of itself."

"A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul."
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"In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?'"

"Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire."

"I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness."

"My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts."

"I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women."
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