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A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

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I felt how much better and more dignified it was for me to show off the finer side of my soul than of my body.

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Whatever we may say about the soul going to the sky... we know there is no sky but only an atmosphere.

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Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

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He was nine years old; he was a child; he he knew his own soul, it was precious to him, he guarded it as the eyelid guards the eye, and without the ke...more

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I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

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Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loop-holes, as it were, in that ordinary life through wh...more

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It hurt her to stir up these feelings, but yet she knew that that was the best part of her soul, and that that part of her soul would quickly be smoth...more

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There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.

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What she did not know, and would never have believed, was that though her soul seemed to have been grown over with an impenetrable layer of mould, som...more