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Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.

Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.

Laurence Sterne
Reading, Sunshine, Soul
'Tristram Shandy' (1759-67) bk. 1, ch. 22

I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me to the contrary.

Laurence Sterne
Book, Soul, World
Laurence Sterne (1768). “A sentimental journey through France and Italy, by mr. Yorick”, p.173

Upon the present theological computation, ten souls must be lost for one that is saved. At which rate of reckoning, heaven can raise but its cohorts while hell commands its legions. From which sad account it would appear, that, though our Saviour had conquered death by the resurrection, he had not yet been able to overcome sin by the redemption.

Laurence Sterne
Heaven, Soul, Overcoming
Laurence Sterne (1814). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author”, p.271

If death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the body;--and if it is true that people can walk about and do their business without brains,--then certes the soul does not inhabit there.

Laurence Sterne
Father, People, Soul
Laurence Sterne (2013). “3 Books by Laurence Sterne”, p.121, eBookIt.com

Tis going, I own, like the Knight of the Woeful Countenance, in quest of melancholy adventures--but I know not how it is, but I am never so perfectly conscious of the existence of a soul within me, as when I am entangled in them.

Laurence Sterne
Adventure, Knights, Soul
Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New, Geoffrey Day (2006). “A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy: And, Continuation of the Bramine's Journal : with Related Texts”, p.156, Hackett Publishing

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