„My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.“

— James Joyce

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„Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.“
— Vladimir Nabokov
„A truce to philosophy! — Life is before me and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows no dread.“
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
„You are the untold story. You are the impassioned truth wanting to scream its existence, to be forever trapped by a strong hand clapped firmly over the mouth of my soul.“
— Henry Rollins
„Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.“
— Walt Whitman