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What good literature can do and does do-”far greater than any importation of morality-”is touch the human soul.

What good literature can do and does do-”far greater than any importation of morality-”is touch the human soul.
– Karen Swallow Prior

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  2. Besides, we were fifteen, and we couldn’t get our feelings to match up with our brains. So we went with our feelings. – Karen Swallow Prior
  3. From that moment, and for the rest of my life, my mother’s words–perceptive and many others–have helped me to be the thing she saw and named in me. – Karen Swallow Prior
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  7. When you touch someone who authentically represents a tradition, you not only touch his or her tradition, you also touch your own. – Thich Nhat Hanh
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  18. The greater a man’s folly, the greater his enslavement. The wiser a man is, the greater his freedom. – Matshona Dhliwayo
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  22. Some people walk into our lives to touch our hearts and others to touch our soul! – Avijeet Das
  23. Manifest of souls;Adventurous soul,Enthusiastic soul, Sound soul,Happy soul,Great soul. – Lailah Gifty Akita
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  38. Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I’m declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature. – Tadeusz Konwicki
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