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the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vas...

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That I growed up a man and not a beast says something for me.

If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh ...

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It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at ...

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I am a beast until I love as God doth love.

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George MacDonaldThe Diary of an Old Soul

Dragons are fire made flesh.

People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their fr...

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The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliatio...

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We may reconcile ourselves to the world at our peril, but it will never reconcile itself to us. . . ...

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Richard BaxterThe Saints' Everlasting Rest

The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books.

The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.

Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.

I am not an ape, I am a man. The world has been created by God. Man has been created by God. It is n...

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Vaslav NijinskyThe Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky

In such an admirable position of the New World, man has no other enemy than himself.

MINISTER: All he has done is to find some means of bewitching the intelligence. He has only induced ...

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Angela CarterThe Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

And you, their best beloved one, are now to me, flesh of my flesh; blood of my blood; kin of my kin;...

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