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O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

—William Shakespeare, c. 1596

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.

—Anaïs Nin, 1935

To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

—George Eliot, 1872

If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.

—Dolly Parton, 2003

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947

The body says what words cannot.

—Martha Graham, 1985

Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

—Oscar Wilde, 1890

The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.

—Willem de Kooning, 1949

It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.

—Leslie Jamison, 2014

My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.

—W.H. Auden, c. 1967

Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.

—Tom Stoppard, 1993