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"Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees."
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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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"People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycontinue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. Itis as though they were traveling abroad."

"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."

"A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu."

"It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying."

"... the courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the 'other side'..."

"That our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people desire from their own substance, a meaning widely different from that which we had put into the same words when we uttered them, is a fact which is perpetually demonstrated in daily life."

"... Odette seemed a fascinating and desirable woman, the attraction which her body held for him had aroused a painful longing to secure the absolute mastery of even the tiniest particles of her heart."

"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book."

"Lies, so often misleading and which form the substance of all conversations, are less effective in covering up a feeling of dislike or of self-interest, or a visit one would rather people did not know about, or a one-day fling one wants to conceal from one's wife - than a good reputation is in utterly overshadowing disreputable habits."
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