"One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen."
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"We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil."
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"Romans 6 - Our flesh is the instrument that Satan works through. When we say no to the flesh, we say no to the devil."
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"I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience."
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"That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust."
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"Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them."
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"A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself."
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"By Baptism we are made flesh of the Crucified"
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"My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity."
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"Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory."
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"I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images."
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"What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh."
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"I'll fight, till from my bones my flesh be hacked."
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"The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it."
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"I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it."
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"Air you breathe is bad for your lungs so you've got to careful and don't overdue any bad air. Too much pot, too much anything is not good. Your lung is a piece of flesh, a piece of bone. You can injure it."
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"Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues."
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"When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on."
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"Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh."
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"What's bred in the bone will stick to the flesh."
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