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“Disgrace is a subtle, multi-layered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose is chaste and lyrical without being self- conscious: it is a relief to encounter writing as quietly stylish as this. I was not totally convinced by Lurie's musical abilities, with regard to his proposed opera, but that is my sole complaint.”

“Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are - hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones.”

Consciousness Position Conscious Strive Bones Flesh Paradoxical Hunk

Author:Thomas Ligotti

“Loving someone condemns you to a lifetime of fear. You become painfully conscious of how fragile people are - bundles of brittle bones and vulnerable flesh, breeding grounds for billions of deadly germs and horrible diseases.”

People Disease Conscious Lifetime Bones Flesh Billions Horrible Vulnerable Vulnerability Fragile Loving Someone Breeding Germs Bundles

Author:Barbara Mertz

“Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.”

Mind Soul Reason Done Action Pain Behinds Smart Conscious Shame Flesh Wounds Confusion Wicked Repentance Perpetual Torment Remorse Ulcers

Author:Plutarch

“Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.”

Consciousness Conscious Flesh Daggers

Book:The Trouble with Being Born

Source: The Trouble with Being Born