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The body says what words cannot.

—Martha Graham, 1985

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

—William Shakespeare, c. 1596

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

—Kate Moss, 2009

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

—Walt Whitman, 1855

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.

—Willem de Kooning, 1949

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

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883

All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.

—Fran Lebowitz, 1978

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

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

Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170