#flesh

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

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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

#community #effort #endeavoring #flesh #fortunately

We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely. ↗

— Georges Duhamel

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Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. ↗

— Lucian Freud

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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood. ↗

— Amy Levy

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Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

#blood #democracy #flesh #guard #masses

But I found out that bones with flesh are more interesting than bones without. ↗

— James MacArthur

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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

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