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

—George Eliot, 1872

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

—Marquis de Sade, 1797

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

—Kate Moss, 2009

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

—Marcel Proust, 1919

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920

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

—Karl Marx, 1860

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

—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.

—Willem de Kooning, 1949

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

—Anaïs Nin, 1935

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

—Leslie Jamison, 2014

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

—Oscar Wilde, 1890

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

—Tom Stoppard, 1993

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

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883