"I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside."

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"I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside."

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

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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."

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Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

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

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

George Eliot, British Author

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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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"Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true."

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"At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety."

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"I don't believe in low-fat cooking."

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"People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad."

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"'Statistically, people who have been happily married and then widowed tend to remarry."

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"But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it."

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"I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do."

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