"For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air."
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"Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time."
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"But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh."
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"in reality we are one and all from the unthinkable first to the no less unthinkable last glued together in a vast imbrication of flesh without breach or fissure"
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"When things don’t change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them."
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"The heart of vegetarians is healed sooner than those of flesh-eaters."
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"A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace."
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"His flesh took paleness from his bones."
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"To be united to God in unity of person was not fitting to human flesh, according to its natural endowments, since it was above his dignity; nevertheless, it was fitting that God, by reason of his infinite goodness, should unite it to himself for human salvation."
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"I know I am known for flesh-flashing, but I am an actress, too."
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"All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!"
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"Wounds to the pride are remembered long after wounds to the flesh."
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"Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding."
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"A votary of ahimsa always prays for ultimate deliverance from the bondage of the flesh."
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"None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live."
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"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"
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"That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones."
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"All flesh is not venison."
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"Throughout much of our lives, our association with the temporary has risen. This transitory body, a sack of bones and flesh, is considered erroneously as our true body and we have accepted this temporary condition as conclusive."
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"The fact is that Mike Tyson bit through my trousers and took a significant piece of flesh out of my thigh."
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