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"Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood."
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"Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee."
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"Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face."
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"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."
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"Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul."
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"The magic moment in life is when your soul just connects with another soul."
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"We are wonderful souls in a wondrous world."
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"No one with a body full of aliments can have a luminous soul and other intellectual faculties. It is necessary to care for the body if we wish the spirit to function normally."
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"The divinity of the soul; life, light and love."
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"Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts."
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"I've just put my heart and soul in a song and need at least a week to recover."
Soul
"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
"Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound."
Sound
"I still don't like doing interviews. I hardly do any... I hope this will be the last one for a long while."
Hope
"There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it."
Emotional
"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
"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
"Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance."
Time
"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
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