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"Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the god. In return, he guarded the god's property, defended his body, worked for him, and obeyed him."
"This little piggy went to Hades This little piggy stayed home This little piggy ate raw and steaming human flesh This little piggy violated virgins And this little piggy clambered over a heap of dead bodies to get to the top"
"I'm mesmerized by the way his fingers move confidently along her skin, as though her body is his to reat and touch and tend to. She was mine before she was yours: The words are there, unexpectedly, surging from my throat to my tongue. I swallow them back."
"Listen, my friend, all forms that exist in God's universe can be found in the human figure. A man's body and face can tell everything he represents. So how could I ever exhaust my interest in it?"
"I think the spirit survives when we die, and nothing is wasted in nature and just as our material body disintegrates and becomes something else in the soil. The spirit becomes something else, reunites with a spiritual force that is out there in the universe. Not as individuals but as part of this spirituality."
"My father says that fear is good; it's the body's alarm system, it warns us of danger. But sometimes danger can't be avoided, and then you have to forget about being afraid."
"Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral."
"Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest."
"There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated."
"I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. I was intrigued by how one moved one's body to protect oneself, how one used a strategy both to attack and retreat, how one paced oneself over a match."
"Breath is aligned with both body and mind and it alone can bring them together."
"I consist of a little body and a soul."
"The body of an actor can be either his best friend or his worst enemy."
"There are three relations [between thee and other things]: the one to the body which surrounds thee; the second to the divine cause from which all things come to all; and the third to those who live with thee."
"An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body."
"Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger."
"Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within."
"Little by little old age renders the body less powerful."
"A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state."
"Whenever I see you, I am overcome with the urge to be rooted within you, to be buried deep so your body can nourish me."
