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

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947

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

—Samuel Beckett, 1951

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

—Marcel Proust, 1919

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

—Kate Moss, 2009

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

—Andy Warhol, 1975

Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1910

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

—Walt Whitman, 1855

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

—Leslie Jamison, 2014

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

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

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

—Oscar Wilde, 1890

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

—George Eliot, 1872

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

—Dolly Parton, 2003

The body says what words cannot.

—Martha Graham, 1985