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

—Marcel Proust, 1919

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

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

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

—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961

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

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

—Oscar Wilde, 1890

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

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

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

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

—Karl Marx, 1860

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

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947

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

—Andy Warhol, 1975

The body says what words cannot.

—Martha Graham, 1985

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

—George Eliot, 1872