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Soul Quotes


"The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul."


"After I found April Barrows, I felt I had found a soul mate. Her stuff is exactly what I was looking for."


"It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!"


"I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!"
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"Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body."


"There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations."
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"Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul, you've got to run like an antelope out of control!"
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"As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity."


"The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul."


"Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul."


"Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience."


"When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart."
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"I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it."


"Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul."


"The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul."


"I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul."


"Meditation is the soul's perspective glass."


"I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things."


"Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck."


"There is something in the Olympics, indefinable, springing from the soul, that must be preserved."
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"I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it."
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