"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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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

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"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

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

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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

George Eliot, British Author

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

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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."

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

Art

"Well, right now it seems that things are going very badly for me, have been doing so for some considerable time, and may continue to do so well into the future. But it is possible that everything will get better after it has all seemed to go wrong. I am not counting on it, it may never happen, but if there should be a change for the better I should regard that as a gain, I should rejoice, I should say, at last! So there was something after all!"

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"If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning."

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"When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars."

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