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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other, knits the sleep, so that it takes the body and soul completely in its healing.
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You don't learn algebra with your blessed soul. Can't you look at it with your clear simple wits?
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Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock molten, yet dense and permanent.
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Nobody can have the soul of me. My mother has had, and nobody can have it again. Nobody can come into my very self again, and breathe me like an atmosphere.
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How I hate the attitude of ordinary people to life. How I loathe ordinariness! How from my soul I abhor nice simple people, with their eternal price list. It makes my blood boil.
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Sex is our deepest form of consciousness. It is utterly non-ideal, non-mental. It is pure blood-consciousness.... It is the consciousness of the night, when the soul is almost asleep.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.
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He was a little model, was Benjamin. Doctor Franklin. Snuff-colored little man! Immortal soul and all!
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It seems to me absolutely true, that our world, which appears to us the surface of all things, is really the bottom of a deep ocean: all our trees are submarine growths, and we are weird, scaly-clad submarine fauna, feeding ourselves on offal like shrimps. Only occasionally the soul rises gasping through the fathomless fathoms under which we live, far up to the surface of the ether, where there is true air.
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The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
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No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all there is in life, it seems to me. But I grant you, if you deny the variety of love you deny love altogether. If you try to specialize love into one set of accepted feelings, you wound the very soul of love. Love must be multi-form, else it is just tyranny, just death
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Whatever men you take, keep the idea of man intact: let your soul wait whether your body does or not.
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The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
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I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate.
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To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and is gone.
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Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer.
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And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.
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The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.
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We are dying, we are dying, piecemeal our bodies are dying and our strength leaves us, and our soul cowers naked in the dark rain over the flood, cowering in the last branches of the tree of our life.
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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
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It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond women, to his supreme activity. For his highest, man is responsible to God alone.
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But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.
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He was an adventurer into the vaults and cellars and horrible underground passages of the human soul.
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Born:
September 11, 1885
Died:
March 2, 1930
(aged 44)
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