#soul

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop. ↗

— Robert Hughes

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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#greater #human #human soul #ideal #live

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#coat #elbows #hat #his #i

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#interior #sea #sky #soul #spectacle

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#breathing #celestial #itself #love #love is

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#dawn #does #eclipse #endless #entitled

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#illusions #soul #supported #them #wings

But it wasn't just a technical approach towards the piano, studying the music for this film was also a way of approaching the soul of the film, because the film is really about the soul of Schubert and the soul of Bach. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

#also #approach #approaching #bach #because

I only give expression to the instincts from my soul. ↗

— M. F. Husain

#give #i #instincts #my soul #only