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To understand that we have souls, is to feel our separation from things visible, our independence of them, our distinct existence in ourselves, our individuality, our power of acting for ourselves this way or that way, our accountableness for what we do.

— John Henry Newman The Immortality of the Soul (1833)

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Source: "The Immortality of the Soul" (1833), Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. I (1868), p. 19
Work: The Immortality of the Soul, 1833
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