First you must believe there is a soul.... If by a soul one means the creature who lives within each of us, a creature born loving, born joyful, but who with each worldly blow shrinks more deeply into its shell until at last, the poor desiccated thing is unrecognizable even to its own self, yes. I do. Lynn Cullen
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Albert Camus, the famous French novelist, said “First you must believe there is a soul,” referring to the idea that there exists a spiritual being living inside each of us. If you think about it, if you are alive today then you are proof that there is someone who lives inside of us. No matter how badly we may have failed here on Earth, if we are alive then there is someone inside of us who is fighting for us to stay alive.

Source: Mrs. Poe

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