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

—Marquis de Sade, 1797

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

—Tom Stoppard, 1993

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.

—Willem de Kooning, 1949

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

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

What are men anyway but balloons on legs, a lot of blown-up bladders?

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64

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

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

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

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949

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

—Karl Marx, 1860

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

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920

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

—Oscar Wilde, 1890

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

—Anaïs Nin, 1935

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

—Chinua Achebe, 1958