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"Suppose that insect wings developed primarily as thermoregulators and then were used for skimming and finally flying, evolving along the way. What would they be "for"? Or what is the skeleton "for"? For keeping one upright, protecting organs, storing calcium, making blood cells...?"
"there's no forsaking what you love no existential leap as witnessed here in time and blood a thousand kisses deep"
"The water which rises in the mountains is the blood which keeps the mountain in life."
"Broken heart. A pump after all, pumping thousands of gallons of blood every day. One fine day it gets bunged up and there you are... Old rusty pumps: damn the thing else. The resurrection and the life. Once you are dead you are dead."
"I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up."
"We have two families in life. One were born with that shares our blood. Another we meet along the way that's willing to give it's life for us."
"My understanding of the meaning of a book is that the book itself disappears from sight, that it is chewed alive, digested and incorporated into the system as flesh and blood which in turn creates new spirit and reshapes the world."
"This metropolitan world, then, is a world where flesh and blood is less real than paper and ink and celluloid."
"The hardest gig there is in entertainment is to be the lead in an hour show, especially if it's a show that's blood and guts and fighting. It's rough. I love to work, but to do something different is really exciting."
"How I do love the earth. I feel it thrill under my feet. I feel somehow as if it were conscious of my love, as if something passed into my dancing blood from it."
"Over our manhood bend the skies; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies; With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite And to our ages drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea."
"If an American company has a drop of patriotic blood coursing through its system, then surely it would set up in America and employ Americans, right?"
"My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection."
"if i was a woman these days, i'd be killing motherfuckers. my handgun would never cool and my hands would be covered in testicular blood. i would have a horrible reputation with a lot of men because i would be calling them on their weak bullshit left and right."
"...and for that they were rich,/And robbed the poor; and for that they were strong,/And scourged the weak; and for that they made laws/Which turned the sweat of labor's brow to blood! - /For these their sins the nations cast them out."
"Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope for life; the beyond as the will to negate every reality; the cross as the mark of recognition for the most subterranean conspiracy that ever existed-against health, beauty, whatever has turned out well, courage, spirit, graciousness of the soul, against life itself."
"It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy poisons from body and earth. They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars were too far for them."
"Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart."
"He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart."
"Most gladly would I give the blood-stained laurel for the first violet which March brings us, the fragrant pledge of the new-fledged year."
