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• I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Strong, Views, Soul

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.145, Penguin

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• Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.

  Elie Wiesel

  Dream, Night, Dust

  Night ch. 3 (1960)

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• Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Soul, Chaos

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 90

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• I'm not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul. I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?

  Carson McCullers

  Beautiful, Running, Soul

  Carson McCullers (1964). “The ballad of the sad café”

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• ...my soul bleeding tears of anguish

  Katie MacAlister

  Broken Heart, Soul, Tears

  Katie Macalister (2006). “Even Vampires Get the Blues”, p.123, Penguin

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• How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are the graces of my soul? Where are the sentiments of my heart? What have you done, oh, Father, What have you done with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here? Said louisa as she touched her heart.

  Charles Dickens

  Father, Heart, Garden

  Charles Dickens “Hard Times”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn't touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough, past you, to other things?

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Past, Soul, Enough

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “Love Song”

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• My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Travel

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.29, Penguin UK

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• Language, at least, may give up the secrets of life and death, leading us through the maze to the original Word as monster or angel, to the mournful place where we may meet Job and hear his cry, 'How long will you vex my soul and break me in pieces with words?

  Janet Frame

  Jobs, Giving Up, Angel

  Janet Frame (1990). “Daughter buffalo”

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• You have my soul and I have your money

  Charles Bukowski

  Soul

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• I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Strong, Hurt, Dirty

  World Tomorrow "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)

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• If you looked down to the bottom of my soul, you would understand fully the source of my longing and – pity me. Even the open, transparent lake has its unknown depths, which no divers know.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Lakes, Soul, Depth

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• Thus die I, thus, thus, thus. Now am I dead, Now am I fled; My soul is in the sky: Tongue, lose thy light; Moon take thy flight. Now die, die, die, die, die.

  William Shakespeare

  Moon, Light, Sky

  "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

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• If aught must be lost, ‘twill be my honor for yours. If one must be forsaken, ‘twill be my soul for yours. Should death come anon, ‘twill be my life for yours. I am Given.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Soul, Honor, Anon

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Nov 20, 2015

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• I sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here without committing murder or being murdered; without having ended up in the madhouse. as I drink alone again tonight my soul despite all the past agony thanks all the gods who were not there for me then.

  Charles Bukowski

  Past, Agony, Drunk

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• I claim you as my life mate. I belong to you. I offer my life for you. I give to you my protection, my allegiance, my heart, my soul, and my body. I take into my keeping the same that is yours. Your life, happiness, and welfare will be cherished and placed above my own for all time. You are my life mate, bound to me for all eternity and always in my care.

  Christine Feehan

  Heart, Giving, Soul

  Christine Feehan (2010). “Dark Challenge”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Simple, Soul, Naked

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.107, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• I was a thorn rushing to be with a rose, vinegar blending with honey… Then I found some dirt to make an ointment that would honor my soul… Love says, “You are right, but don’t claim these changes. Remember, I am wind. You are an ember I ignite.

  Rumi

  Wind, Rushing, Rose

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• my love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Soul

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• My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring and carried aloft on the wings of the breeze.

  Anne Bronte

  Healing, Wings, Soul

  1846 'Line Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day', in Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell.

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• You have been the last dream of my soul.

  Charles Dickens

  Dream, Cities, Soul

  Charles Dickens (1873). “Tale of Two Cities”, p.95

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• A truce to philosophy!—Life is before me, and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows no dread. What has been, though sweet, is gone; the present is good only because it is about to change, and the to come is all my own.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Sweet, Philosophy, Ambition

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1833). “The Last Man”, p.34

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• The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my body is as wild and delicate as the skin of a Ming vase.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Passion, Soul, Brain

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.351, Simon and Schuster

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• Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.

  George Eliot

  Hands, Remembrance, Soul

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3225, Delphi Classics

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• I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.

  Sylvia Plath

  Soul, Feminism, Flesh

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