Flesh is a cheap, vain thing. Grass is flesh, and flesh becomes grass
 Jack London, The Star Rover (1915). copy citation

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Author Jack London
Source The Star Rover
Topic flesh
Date 1915
Language English
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“Not until back in my own cell and consciousness was I able to mull the thing over and realize that just as was Jake Oppenheimer, so was Ed Morrell, so was I. And I could not but thrill as I glimpsed the vastitude of spirit that inhabited these frail, perishing carcasses of us—the three incorrigibles of solitary. Flesh is a cheap, vain thing. Grass is flesh, and flesh becomes grass; but the spirit is the thing that abides and survives. I have no patience with these flesh-worshippers. A taste of solitary in San Quentin would swiftly convert them to a due appreciation and worship of the spirit.” source