When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Sensation is amphibious: at the same time it joins us to and divides us from things. It is the door through which we enter into things but also through which we come out of them and realize that we are not things.
Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.
When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred.
A bit of lusting after someone does wonders for the skin.
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
Look, taste is clearly the crudest of our senses: this is scientifically, objectively factual. It is less nuanced. Eyesight is extraordinary - hearing, touch. I find people who devote their whole lives to taste a little strange.
If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.
A thick skin is a gift from God.
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