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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate…
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly,…
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others.…
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few…
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them…
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the…
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from…
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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour…
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way…
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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human,…
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It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's…
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.…
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"The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.
— J. G. Holland
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Our soul, like Mary's body, is to receive God Himself if only we, like her, believe, consent and receive; if only we…
— Peter Kreeft
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The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.
— Socrates
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The type of music that I love to sing would have to be more bluesy and jazzy and more soul-like because I…
— Thia Megia
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Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.
— Al-Ghazali
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God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.
— C.S. Lewis
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Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
— George Herbert
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Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode…
— Honore de Balzac
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If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to…
— Johan Huizinga
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The greatest act of faith is that which rises to your lips in total darkness together with the sacrifices, sufferings and wholehearted…
— Pio of Pietrelcina
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A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world.
— Alexander Smith
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