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

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

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

One’s body, hair, and skin are a gift from one’s parents—do not dare to allow them to be harmed.

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.

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

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

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

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

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

Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.

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