But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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