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

—Marquis de Sade, 1797

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920

Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1910

My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.

—W.H. Auden, c. 1967

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

—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961

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

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947

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

—Classic of Filial Piety, c. 200 BC

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

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.

—Willem de Kooning, 1949

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

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

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

—Samuel Beckett, 1951

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 enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883