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Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1910

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

—Marquis de Sade, 1797

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

—Leslie Jamison, 2014

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

—Anaïs Nin, 1935

The body says what words cannot.

—Martha Graham, 1985

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

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883

I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.

—Phyllis Diller, 1981

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

—William Shakespeare, c. 1596

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

—Samuel Beckett, 1951

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

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949

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

—Tom Stoppard, 1993

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

—George Eliot, 1872

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

—Walt Whitman, 1855