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Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1910

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

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

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

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

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

—Marcel Proust, 1919

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

—Andy Warhol, 1975

What are men anyway but balloons on legs, a lot of blown-up bladders?

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64

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

—Leslie Jamison, 2014

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

—Samuel Beckett, 1951

The body says what words cannot.

—Martha Graham, 1985

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.

—Willem de Kooning, 1949

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949

I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.

—Elizabeth I, 1588

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

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947