“I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow.”
Elizabeth von Arnim (1866–1941) Australian writer
Source: The Solitary Summer
“My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it. What a soul may be is beyond my understanding.”
"Do We Live Again?" an interview with Edison, as quoted in Mr. Edison's New Argument from Design" in The Illustrated London News (3 May 1924).
1920s
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