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- You don't have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.
(Walter M. Miller Jr, "A Canticle for Leibowitz")
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- I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul.
(William Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night")
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- If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals that fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants, in untold numbers. There is no doubt in my mind that that feral giraffes and feral hippos have been living in Tokyo for generations without seeing a soul.
(Yann Martel, "Life of Pi")
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- You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.
(Yevgeny Zamyatin, "We")
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- Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?
(Voltaire, "Candide")
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- I know this love, that sovereign of hearts, that soul of our souls; yet it never cost me more than a kiss and twenty kicks on the backside. How could this beautiful cause produce in you an effect so abominable.
(Voltaire, "Candide")
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- It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.
(Voltaire, "Candide")
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- Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.
(Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass")
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- Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.
(Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables")
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- One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.
(Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables")
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- The book the reader has now before his eyes - from one end to the other, in its whole and in its details, whatever the omissions, the exceptions, or the faults - is the march from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from the false to the true, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, from rottenness to life, from brutality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from nothingness to God. Starting point: matter; goal: the soul. Hydra at the beginning, angel at the end.
(Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables")
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- The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being
(Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables")
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- The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
(Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables")
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- To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
(Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables")
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- Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.
(Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables")
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