“ MINSTREL, adj. Formerly a poet, singer or musician; now a nigger with a color less than skin deep and a humor more than flesh and blood can bear. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ I find women with well developed flesh very attractive. The scrawny little things doing commercials on my television set are slightly repulsive — like famine victims. ”
- Dana Hatch- Copy
- 3K
“ A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life. ”
- Gustave Flaubert- Copy
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“ He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed. ”
- Confucius- Copy
- 702
“ All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh. ”
- Doris Lessing- Copy
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“ Man is a wonderful creature; he sees through the layers of fat ”
- Hazrat Ali Ibn e Abi Talib- Copy
- 1.6K
“ A man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and the two become one flesh. ”
- The Bible- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. ”
- Leonard Cohen- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
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“ Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. ”
- Marcus Aurelius- Copy
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“ Electric flesh-arrows… traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm. ”
- Anais Nin- Copy
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“ For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
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“ Fortunately art is a community effort — a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh. ”
- Allen Ginsberg- Copy
- 510
“ He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility. ”
- Elizabeth Gaskell- Copy
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“ Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones. ”
- Sydney Smith- Copy
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“ Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it. ”
- Akhenaton- Copy
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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. ”
- Thomas Hardy- Copy
- 1.2K
“ I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep. ”
- Joseph De Maistre- Copy
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“ I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
- 1K
“ If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh. ”
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca- Copy
- 92
“ In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell. ”
- Norman Mailer- Copy
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“ In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified. ”
- Hermann Hesse- Copy
- 55
“ Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air? ”
- Mary Baker Eddy- Copy
- 2.1K
“ It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons. ”
- Johann Friedrich von Schiller- Copy
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