Flesh Quotes
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Stories are like catechisms, but they're catechisms for your impulses, they're catechisms with flesh on.
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Oh! God! That bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap!
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Identity is the history that has gone into bone and blood and reshaped the flesh. Identity is not what we were but what we have become what we are at this moment.
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When they eventually ran out of food, some but not all resorted to eating the flesh of those who'd died. This story has mythic power in large part as a testimony to what people are capable of when pushed to the extremes of human experience. Some become savages. Some become heroes.
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I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.
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Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: 'This is My Body.' No one partakes of this Flesh before he has adored it.
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We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back to being stone—crumbling in death rather than rotting, trapped inside an immobile prison of stone rather than reduced to immaterial souls like those that now rattled within our skulls. The moment passes. There is no point in regretting irreversible decisions—one has to live with them, and we try.
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This body made of flesh is subject to death. If it is not washed for a single day, it stinks. We cannot trust the human body.
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Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.
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Life is impermanent and in the face of that impermanence, cavort! Look death in the eye, tell him you’re as cute as a button, flash a little deviant guile his way, and tell him to go feast on somebody’s else’s sweet flesh.
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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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Once a man offered me his heart and I said no. Not because I didn’t love him. Not because he was a beast or white — I couldn’t love him. Do you understand? In bed while we slept, our bodies inches apart, the dark between our flesh a wick. It was burning down. And he couldn’t feel it.
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Die on a hilltop... eyeing the crows... waiting for your lids to close... but you want to watch as they peck your flesh... Ironic that they go for the eyes first.
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Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.
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A man is a fool who leans on the arm of flesh when he can be supported by the arm of Omnipotence.
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He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.
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I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion.
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Drawing is the skeleton of what you do and color is its flesh.
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Hell was a living place inside every membrane of flesh that temporarily passed itself off as human.
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I love things that are absurd, useless, impossible, frantic, excessive, and intense, because they provoke me, because I feel them like thorns in my flesh.
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As a handful of sand thrown into the ocean, so are the sins of all flesh as compared with the mind of God.
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You won't calm the tiger if you feed him with your own flesh
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You do not placate a tiger by feeding it your own flesh.
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I cannot find any great difference, on the basis of natural reason and equity only, between feeding on human flesh and feeding on animal flesh, except custom and practice.
