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“Desire is the kind of thing that eats you and leaves you starving.”

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“Tears had poured from her eyes without any change in her facial expression. It’s pure pain and pure surrender when your soul cries without any fight from your body and that’s how I knew she was deeply affected.”

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Book:Sweet Thing

Source: Sweet Thing

“Color directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another purposively, to cause vibrations in the soul.”

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Book:Concerning the spiritual in art

Source: Concerning the spiritual in art

“When rain and tears are making a trip together, emotions can be coming under pressure. But the fluid bond between the power of nature and the frailty of the soul may also smash the weight of the burden and create a liberating mental flow opening new insights. (“Rainman”)”

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Author:Erik Pevernagie

“If we learn to listen to the others and try to capture the soul of their language, and can scent the fragrance of the words we hear, we can be transported to a nirvana of deep understanding, without being overwhelmed by the reality of the clock. ("Watching the flight of time")”

Soul Language Words Clock Scent Fragrance Listen Nirvana Deep Understanding Flight Of Time

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“Even when we feel the sun in our soul has died, and the autumn storms of our life have broken the glow in our eyes, nothing must keep us from swelling the river of our inner longing. We can create a new scenario and colorize the chapters of the story we want to embed and liven up the thinking pattern of the personae we would like to cast a role.( "Into a new life")”

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Author:Erik Pevernagie

“And she understood, all by herself, without reading it in a novel or hearing it on a radio program, that falling passionately in love with someone, without reservation or holding back, was good for the heart. For its valves and its arteries and that invisible shadow of the heart called the soul. Falling in love was good for the soul.”

Book:Stormy Weather

Source: Stormy Weather

“There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness? Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.”

War Soul Conscience Injustice Imperialism Palestine Self Interest Gaza Gaza War First They Came For

Book:One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Source: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“From the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I was dominated, soul brain and power.”

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Book:The Picture Of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray

“Now the wren has gone to roost and the sky is turnin' gold And like the sky my soul is also turnin' Turnin' from the past, at last and all I've left behind”

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Book:God Willin' & the Creek Don't Rise

Source: God Willin' & the Creek Don't Rise

“Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own." [The Sick Chamber (The New Monthly Magazine , August 1830)]”

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Book:Essays of William Hazlitt: Selected and Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by Frank Carr

Source: Essays of William Hazlitt: Selected and Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by Frank Carr