Soul Quotes
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There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor a writer of didactic fiction...For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.
Irvine Welsh
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No more soul-destroying doctrine could well be devised than the doctrine that sinners can regenerate themselves, and repent and believe just when they please.
Charles Hodge
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The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.
Mason Cooley
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Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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Every person is worthy of an infinite wealth of love - the beauty of his soul knows no limit.
Rabindranath Tagore
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My dad was a soul fan and a singer himself, and he loved vocal harmony, stuff like the Beach Boys and Motown like the Four Tops, which was a big influence on me.
Kathleen Anne Brien
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I open my eyes to see Ry staring at me, and my desert soul erupts with turquoise water, floods and cascades and waterfalls rushing in around my rocky parts, pushing and reshaping and filling every hidden dark spot.
Kiersten White
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I had an awful lot of my soul invested in Atari culture.
Nolan Bushnell
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Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it.
Hank Ballard
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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
Virginia Woolf
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It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.
Alphonsus Liguori
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My soul is to sell. The dark is too hard to beat 'cause they're calling me.
Ellie Goulding
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The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.
Galina Vishnevskaya
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As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.
Edith Stein
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Today I have so much to do: I must kill memory once and for all, I must turn my soul to stone, I must learn to live again- Unless ... Summer's ardent rustling Is like a festival outside my window.
Anna Akhmatova
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It's hard to know exactly how people develop the characters they do. There could be people from humble beginnings that turn into jerks. Some characteristics are just part of that special soul of that human being.
David Maraniss
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The soul... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.
Anya Seton
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You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.
Jane Austen
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They say what doesn't kill the soul will make you stronger, but you can't be a stone-hearted man.
Anthony Green Circa Survive
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There's two ways of dealing with fears of mortality. One of them is to hide, so every day you wear the same suit and go to the same job... and the other is to reinvent yourself. I think I reinvent myself all the time. The idea that I would have to be one thing for the rest of my life would just be a soul-destroying idea.
John Ralston Saul
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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
Marcel Proust
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There is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe.... The soul of the world is nourished by people's happiness.
Paulo Coelho