How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to ke

How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle? – Katherine Mansfield, Bliss and Other Stories

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Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us. – Osbert Sitwell

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If there is any true temple, true gurdwara, true mosque or true church, it is our own body. This place God has designed for Himself, and He sits within it. – Maharaj Charan Singh Ji

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We use our brains very little, and when we do, it is only to make excuses for our reflexes and our instincts — only to make our acts appear more studied. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed? – Michelangelo

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