Steven Erikson Quotes
The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.
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Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.
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The essence of a person is not the clothing she wears or the things he does. People who love them do not stop loving them when they change clothing or do other things. Your essence is not even your history, culture, race, or what you think and do. It is your soul.
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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
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Grief causes suffering and disease.
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My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
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Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
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No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'.
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The soul of Man must quicken to creation.
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The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other; and with them this conviction does not spring from that barren traditionary faith which seems to vegetate in the soul rather than to live.
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The sophist is concerned with wisdom, not for its own sake, not because he hates the lie in the soul more than anything else, but for the sake of the honor or the prestige that attends wisdom.
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Body and soul are not two different things, but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing. Similarly, physics and psychology are only different attempts to link our experiences together by way of systematic thought.
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There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.
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I've not met a soul who wants to see The Wanted over One Direction. The thirst for those boys is insane.
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I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the theatricality, the poetry and soul of the wire. And you cannot be a wire-walker without mingling those two ways of seeing life.
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Really, what I'm trying to do is make soul music, but I don't even think of it as a genre. It's more of a feeling.
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It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.
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We are all mortals, and each is for himself.
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I, for one, can't be sure at all there is a God.
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Wanting more majors, wanting more wins, almost feels like I think I'm being too greedy.
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The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.
