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"The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them."
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"But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again."
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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."
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"Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman."
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"No beautiful aspect of humankind is foreign to person with a lucid soul."
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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."
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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..."
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"She had something more than material value ~ she had a soul, no money could buy."
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"The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process: I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult."
Music
"We're thinking about printing the lyrics with the next record so that people can find their own meaning in them. But then they would start having a life of their own, and I think the Portishead music should stay a whole in which the lyrics come second, actually."
Life
"Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance."
Time
"I try to imagine how we would live if we didn't know we were going to die. Would we live our lives differently? Less careful, maybe? Less scared? These are beautiful things to think about and build a song around."
Music
"I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death."
Death
"I still don't like doing interviews. I hardly do any... I hope this will be the last one for a long while."
Hope
"I've just put my heart and soul in a song and need at least a week to recover."
Soul
"You feel the music needs something but you don't know what. So you start searching, fitting, measuring, trying. Every time you try another angle. And sometimes that's frustrating, especially if you don't come up with something for three days."
Music
"Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound."
Sound
"There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it."
Emotional
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