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Man is profoundly dependent on the reflection of himself in another man's soul, be it even the soul of an idiot.


Witold Gombrowicz

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LAUREN LOLA ... when someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but h...
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MARY KAY BLAKELY Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
GEORGE ELIOT When she was younger, she felt that he wanted to know everything about her, but she was sometimes af...
MICHAEL STEIN But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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ANGIE KARAN Serenity is not the conclusion of a soul journey, it is the acceptance of being on a soul journey.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Man is the victim of an environment which refuses to understand his soul.
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AMIT RAY Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the f...
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JOSEPH BRODSKY But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be ti...
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ANWAR EL-SADAT Every idea is in the soul of its owner. No other power can shift it to another soul, that is why we ...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Knowledge that brings closure [settlement] to the mind in every way is Absolute Knowledge and it ind...
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WILLIAM SAROYAN Reincarnation of soul does not happen, but reincarnation, renovation and evolution of ideas do.
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KUNAL NARAYAN UNIYAL What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and...
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BRANDON SANDERSON Or might the soul clone itself,
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of something yet to be
def...
ELLEN HOPKINS Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
G. K. CHESTERTON For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of a...
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ Well, you split your soul, you see, and hide part of it in an object outside the body. Then, even if...
J.K. ROWLING The words spoken from a selfless soul are the sole flawless powers to empower the world.
ANUJ SOMANY Its a little like looking at yourself looking in a mirror looking at yourself looking in a mirror.
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