"We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars."
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"Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of flesh? Who would call that life?"
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"The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are."
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"If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to."
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"Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful."
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"It's the way of all flesh, you know. Aging takes its toll. Like I said, it's the way of all flesh. When the time came and he finally had to step down, the thing that kept him going disappeared."
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"Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes."
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"Fasting stirs a hunger in your spirit that goes deeper than the temporary you experience in your flesh."
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"We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there."
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"A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough."
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"This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings."
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"Kick is seeing things from a special angle. Kick is momentary freedom from the claims of the aging, cautious, nagging, fightened flesh."
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"We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels."
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"At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is."
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"The flesh does not by its own virtue purify, but is purified by virtue of the Word by which it was assumed, when 'the Word became flesh and dwelt among us' (Jn. 1:14)."
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"Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought."
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"No man is free who is a slave to the flesh."
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"No one ever really pays for betrayal in silver....The price of any betrayal always comes due in flesh."
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"She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was. It was her image of Jody tumbled down and shattered. But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just something she had grabbed up to drape her dreams over."
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"I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy."
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