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The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.

Cancer Ward
Soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain the infinite.

The Post-Office Girl
He did not know what to say in the face of such sorrow. He sat in silence by his sister's side in the spring verdure, which was too young; and the hidden strings in his breast began to quiver; and to sound. This was the first time that he had ever looked into the labyrinth of the human soul.

Independent People
My world is not like the world of other people, I want much more, I demand much more, there is inside me a thirst for the infinite, a constant anxiety that I do not even understand, because I am far from being a pessimist; first I am an exalted one, with an intense soul, violent, tormented, a soul that does not feel well where it is, that misses... I do not know what!

Correspondence (1930)
You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

The Sun Also Rises
It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.
What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul? Why would you say anything?

No Country for Old Men
They did not know what we can now sense as we contemplate the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it shows in our lives.

The Great Wall of China
A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new.

Knulp
Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself.

Siddhartha
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