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"So what do you want? Does what happens inside show on the outside? There is such a great fire in one's soul, and yet nobody ever comes to warm themselves there, and passersby see nothing but a little smoke coming from the top of the chimney, and go on their way."
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"The Soul is the voice of the body's interests."

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

"One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees."
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"The human body is the best picture of the human soul."

"She had something more than material value ~ she had a soul, no money could buy."
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"Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it."


"Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, 'What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.' Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope."


"The world concerns me only in so far as I owe it a certain debt and duty, so to speak, because I have walked this earth for 30 years, and out of gratitude would like to leave some memento in the form of drawings and paintings-not made to please this school or that, but to express a genuine human feeling."


"I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime."


"Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum."


"One of the most beautiful things to do is to paint darkness, which nevertheless has light in it."
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