„She was the captain of her soul“

— William Faulkner

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„I know she ain't you, but she's here, and she's got that dark rhythm in her soul.“
— Bob Dylan
„We are still masters of our fate.We are still captains of our souls.“
— Winston S. Churchill
„But when returning into herself she [the soul] reflects; then she passes into the realm of purity, and eternity, and immortality, and unchangeableness, which are her kindred, and with them she ever lives, when she is by herself and is not let or hindered; then she ceases from her erring ways, and being in communion with the unchanging is unchanging. And this state of the soul is called wisdom.“
— Socrates
„Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace.“
— Louisa May Alcott