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

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947

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

—Chinua Achebe, 1958

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

—Anaïs Nin, 1935

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

—Oscar Wilde, 1890

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

—Dolly Parton, 2003

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

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

—Marcel Proust, 1919

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

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.

—Willem de Kooning, 1949

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

—William Shakespeare, c. 1596

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

—Marquis de Sade, 1797

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

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

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