Mind being the seat of the soul, and literature being the expression of the mind, literature, it follows, is the soul of an age, the surviving and immortal part of it.

Rafael Sabatini
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When a man has a soul, he can write. When a man writes, he is expressing that soul. The best literature comes from those who have souls to express.

Source: The Life Of Cesare Borgia

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