Flesh Quote by Thomas Hardy

“you dear, sweet, tantalizing phantom--hardly flesh at all; so that when I put my arms round you I almost expect them to pass through you as through air!” quote by Thomas Hardy — Download Open image

““you dear, sweet, tantalizing phantom--hardly flesh at all; so that when I put my arms round you I almost expect them to pass through you as through air!””

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Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of her pain. She might have seen that what had bowed her head so profoundly -the thought of the world's concern at her situation- was found…

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“It was mid-May time, bringing with it weather not, perhaps, quite so blooming as that assumed to be natural to the month by the joyous poets of three hundred years ago; but a very tolerable, well-wearing May, that the average rustic would willingly have compounded for in lieu of Mays occasionally fairer, but usually more foul.”

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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

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Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

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“I was court-martialed in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.”

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I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

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Flesh forgets. Bone remembers.

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For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.

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