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These Are The Pale Deaths Which Men Miscall Their Live
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These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives; for all the
scents of green things growing, each breath is but an exhalation of the
grave. Bodies jerk like puppet corpses, and hell walks laughing --
Related:
All things are green unless they are not.
All of us have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives foreve
it is a portion of the Deity housed in our bodies. -- Flavius Josephu...
It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.
-- Edward Abbey...
For they starve the frightened little child Till it weeps both night and day
And they scourge the weak, and flog the fool, And gibe the old and grey, And some grow mad, and all grow bad, And none a word may say....
All men are like Arabs.
Even so, oxen, lions and horses, if they had hands wherewith to grave images, would fashion gods after their own shapes and give them bodies like their own.
-- Xenophanes of Colophon (c.570-c.475 BCE) "Fragments" No. 15...
All men possess in their bodies a poison which acts upon serpe
and the human saliva, it is said, makes them take to flight, as though they had been touched with boiling water....
Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness, feel the slippery finish.
Caresses it, experience it. Quite smooth, isn't it?...
Baby's heads have no hair, Old men's heads are just as bare
Between the cradle and the grave, Lies a haircut and a shave....