"The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty."
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"Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and every page that can be economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature rebels against this rule; the flesh is weak, and shrinks from the scissors; I groan in retrospect over the weak."
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"But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh."
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"Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety and surfeit."
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"What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as is this flesh. This mawky worm-bent tabernacle."
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"The concept that you are not ingesting rotting flesh sort of sums it up for me."
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"Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?"
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"The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown."
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"I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood."
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"My national service is part of my training for freeing my soul from the bondage of the flesh."
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"I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet. I believe that I will return. Poets always return in flesh or on paper."
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"What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something immaterial."
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"Everything from toy guns that spark To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark It's easy to see without looking too far That not much is really sacred."
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"I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness."
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"Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh? Be it converted and follow thee."
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"Jesus took His flesh from the flesh of Mary"
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"It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation; but no one eats of this flesh without having first adored it . . . and not only do we not sin in thus adoring it, but we would be sinning if we did not do so."
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"I, to you, am lost in the gorgeous errors of flesh."
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"My flesh winced, in cowardice, from such a death."
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"Man is born of woman, he is flesh of her flesh and bone of her bone."
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