"Sin is whatever obscures the soul."

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"What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

Soul, Body, Brevity, Wit

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

Charles Bukowski, American Author

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"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

Soul, Eye, Unconscious

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

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"The divinity of the soul; life, light and love."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Soul, Divinity, Life, Light

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

George Eliot, British Author

Soul, Memory, Expectation, Emotion

"Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"I committed a cardinal sin by starving my soul while allowing mind to have a feast!"

Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

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"Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented."

Being

"No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond."

Work

"Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."

Art

"God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved."

God

"It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle."

People

"Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you."

Generosity

"Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor."

Art

""Therefore" is a word the poet must not know."

Literature

"Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling."

Nature

"To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company."

Travel