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“It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying. If there's a window, you must imagine your body falling out the window. If there's a knife, you must imagine the knife piercing your skin. If there's a train coming, you must imagine your torso flattened under its wheels. These exercises are necessary to achieving the proper distance.”

“We fall into states of illusion - we forget all this. We get caught up in desires, frustrations, political movements, philosophies, religions, the getting of a living, the pain of a body, the pleasure of a body.”

States Philosophy Body Pain Political Desire Fall Forget Pleasure Movement Ignorance Illusion Caught Frustration Caught Up Political Movements

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Our planet consists largely of lumps of fall-out from a star-sized hydrogen bomb. Within our bodies, no less than three million atoms rendered unstable in that event still erupt every minute, releasing a tiny fraction of the energy stored from that fierce fire of long ago.”

Long Stills Body Fall Three Energy Stars Millions Fire Minutes Events Planets Tiny Bombs Atoms Fierce Long Ago Our Planet Fractions Unstable Lumps Hydrogen Hydrogen Bomb

Author:James Lovelock

“I wish to be of service to the artists of our own day, by showing them how a small beginning leads to the highest elevation, and how from so noble a situation it is possible to fall to utmost ruin, and consequently, how these arts resemble nature as shown in our human bodies.”

Humans Art Body Artist Fall Wish Situation Teaching Highest Noble Ruins Human Body Elevation Small Beginnings

Author:Giorgio Vasari

“There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer has observed that wit may do very well for a mistress, but that he should prefer reason for a wife. He that deserts the latter, and gives himself up entirely to the guidance of the former, will certainly fall into many pitfalls and quagmires, like him who walks by flashes of lightning, rather than the steady beams of the sun.”

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“How many mysteries have you seen in your lifetime? How many nets pulled full over the boat's side, each silver body ready or not falling into submission? How many roses in early summer uncurling above the pale sands then falling back in unfathomable willingness? And what can you say? Glory to the rose and the leaf, to the seed, to the silver fish. Glory to time and the wild fields, and to joy. And to grief's shock and torpor, its near swoon.”

Body Joy Fall Sides Grief Mystery Fields Ready Summer Glory Rose Lifetime Fishes Seeds Boat Shock Sand Silver Willingness Pale Leafs Submission Unfathomable

Book:Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

Source: Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“I go to bed, and I wait for sleep as a man might wait for the executioner. I wait for its coming with dread, and my heart beats and my legs tremble, while my whole body shivers beneath the warmth of the bedclothes, until the moment when I suddenly fall asleep, as a man throws himself into a pool of stagnant water in order to drown. I do not feel this perfidious sleep coming over me as I used to, but a sleep which is close to me and watching me, which is going to seize me by the head, to close my eyes and annihilate me.”

Source: 13 Short Scary Stories: Masterpieces of the greatest writers

“A woman's body is a dark and monstrous mystery; between her supple thighs a heavy whirlpool swirls, two rivers crash, and woe to him who slips and falls!”

Two Body Fall Dark Mystery Rivers Heavy Slips Crash Woe Monstrous Thighs Women's Bodies Swirls Supple Whirlpools

Book:the Odyssey a Modern Sequel

Source: the Odyssey a Modern Sequel

“O impotence of mind, in body strong! But what is strength without a double share Of wisdom, vast, unwieldy, burdensome, Proudly secure, yet liable to fall By weakest subtleties, not made to rule, But to subserve where wisdom bears command.”

Mind Made Body Fall Strong Share Bears Command Secure Subtlety Liable Impotence

Author:John Milton

“When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small drops of water torturers let fall ceaselessly upon one spot of their victim's body, I loved the irradiate refuge of sleep. In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods.”

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“I should be glad of loneliness And hours that go on broken wings,A thirsty body, a tired heart And the unchanging ache of things,If I could make a single song As lovely and as full of light,As hushed and brief as a falling star On a winter night.”

Ifs Should Heart Body Light Night Song Fall Stars Hours Loneliness Broken Goes On Tired Wings Winter Glad Lovely If I Could Ache Thirsty Unchanging Winter Night Broken Wings

Book:Flame and Shadow

Source: Flame and Shadow

“Do not the Rays of Light which fall upon Bodies, and are reflected or refracted, begin to bend before they arrive at the Bodies; and are they not reflected, refracted, and inflected, by one and the same Principle, acting variously in various Circumstances?”

Body Light Fall Acting Principles Circumstances Various Rays Rays Of Light

Book:Opticks: A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light

Source: Opticks: A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light

“Common sense tells us that the world is flat, that the sun goes around the earth, that heavy bodies always fall faster than light bodies, that boats made of iron will sink.”

World Made Body Light Earth Fall Common Sun Heavy Common Sense Boat Faster Iron Flats Iron Will World Is Flat

Book:The Proper Study of Mankind

Source: The Proper Study of Mankind

“Until recently baby production was largely dependent on slave labour; as soon as women are allowed to answer the question "Would you like to squeeze as many objects the size of a watermelon out of your body as it takes to kill you?" they generally answer "No, thank you." This leads to falling birthrates everywhere women are not kept enslaved and ignorant of the alternatives.”

Body Fall Answers Objects Baby Slave Size Productions Your Body Ignorant Alternatives Dependent Labour Slave Labour

Author:James Nicoll

“The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood is about total sacrifice, whether to religion or to communism. This is what is engraved on me. This is why I have this insane willpower. My body is now beginning to be falling apart, but I will do it to the end. I don't care. With me it is about whatever it takes.”

“Every morning, just like in Alabama, I got up with the sun, ate my breakfast even before my mother and sisters and brothers, and went to school, winter, spring, and fall alike to run and jump and bend my body this way and that for Mr. Charles Riley.”

Way Body Running School Mother Fall Sports Morning Sun Brother Spring Winter Athlete Breakfast Every Morning Brothers And Sisters Alabama

Book:Jesse, a spiritual autobiography

Source: Jesse, a spiritual autobiography

“Eleven times Jesus died on the cross, Eleven times falls down a body thrown upward, Eleven times also I abandon the logical flow of thought.”

Body Fall Jesus Atheism Flow Crosses Died Positive Atheism Thrown Abandon Logical Falling Down Eleven

Author:Daniil Kharms

“So now you can let go, my darling...Let go...Let go of this poor old body. You don't need it anymore. Let it fall away from you. Leave it lying there like a pile of worn-out clothes...Go on, my darling, go on into the Light, into the peace, into the living peace of the Clear Light.”

Needs Body Light Lying Fall Poor Clear Goes On Letting Go Clothes Worn Darling Away From You Worn Out

Author:Aldous Huxley

“Your body can't switch off tired. People fall asleep behind the wheel all the time.”

People Body Fall Behinds Tired Your Body Wheels

Author:Shanola Hampton

“What sort of tree is there which will not, if neglected, grow crooked and unfruitful; what but Will, if rightly ordered, prove productive and bring its fruit to maturity? What strength of body is there which will not lose its vigor and fall to decay by laziness, nice usage, and debauchery?”

Ifs Body Fall Culture Grows Loses Nice Tree Prove Fruit Maturity Productive Laziness Decay Neglected Crooked Vigor Usage Debauchery

Author:Plutarch

“Happy are those lovers who, when their senses require rest, can fall back upon the intellectual enjoyments afforded by the mind! Sweet sleep then comes, and lasts until the body has recovered its general harmony. On awaking, the senses are again active and always ready to resume their action.”

Mind Body Action Lasts Fall Passion Sleep Ready Sweet Lovers Intellectual Harmony Active Senses Enjoyment Resumes Fall Back Sweet Sleep

Book:The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 2: To Paris and Prison

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 2: To Paris and Prison