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"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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"The Soul is the voice of the body's interests."
"The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood."
"Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation."
"Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation."
"There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred."
"A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world."
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"Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength."
"To associate with other like-minded people in small purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction."
"Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too."
"Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence - either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by some kind of conspicuous 'embarkation' and heroic conquest, or else to annihilate the persona and transcend the ego in an obscure rapture of sensuality, a frenzy of romantic passion, more creditably, in the mutual charity of the perfect marriage."
"A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it."
"We men of intelligence will learn to harness the insanities of reason. We can't leave the world any longer to the direction of chance. We can't allow dangerous maniacs like Luther, mad about dogma, like Napoleon, mad about himself, to go on casually appearing and turning everything upside down. In the past it didn't so much matter; but our modern machine is too delicate. A few more knocks like the Great War, another Luther or two, and the whole concern will go to pieces. In future, the men of reason must see that the madness of the world's maniacs is canalised into proper channels, is made to do useful work, like a mountain torrent driving a dynamo..."
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