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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

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

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

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

—Dolly Parton, 2003

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

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

—William Shakespeare, c. 1596

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

—Oscar Wilde, 1890

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

—Anaïs Nin, 1935

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

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.

—Fran Lebowitz, 1978

Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1910

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

—Kate Moss, 2009

As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.

—Chinua Achebe, 1958