"Death - a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh."
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"There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh."
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"Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh."
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"When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh."
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"I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit."
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"Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh."
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"I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh."
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"The mystery of the humanity of Christ, that he sunk himself into our flesh, is beyond all human understanding."
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"As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does"
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"God made us angels of energy, encased in solids - currents of life dazzling through a material bulb of flesh."
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"When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open."
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"Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will."
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"Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh."
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"[On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh."
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"Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood, and you're the one I need"
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"In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified."
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"The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself."
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"I can smell burning flesh... and I hope to God it's human."
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"I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species."
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"Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work."
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