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Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1910

If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.

—Samuel Beckett, 1951

There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.

—Karl Marx, 1860

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

—William Shakespeare, c. 1596

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

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947

The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.

—Marcel Proust, 1919

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

—Tom Stoppard, 1993

Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.

—Marquis de Sade, 1797

Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.

—Andy Warhol, 1975

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

—Anaïs Nin, 1935

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

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

The world is made of the very stuff of the body.

—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920