"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."

Soul, Expression, Emotion, Isolation

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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 has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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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."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman."

Maureen O'Hara, Irish Actress

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"To breath the air of Paris preserves the soul."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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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."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Life is a sacred-spirit."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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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..."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"She had something more than material value ~ she had a soul, no money could buy."

Nikki Rowe, American Writer

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"I don't think I do have a soul."

Al Purdy, Canadian Poet

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"No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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Explore more quotes by Vincent van Gogh

"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."

Hope

"As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed."

Development

"There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even-the French air clears up the brain and does good-a world of good."

Travel

"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it."

Solitude

"I dream my painting and then I paint my dream."

Art

"It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning."

Observation

"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

Art

"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."

Harmony

"I dream my painting and I paint my dream."

Creativity

"It has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don't know the artistic side of a painting."

Creativity