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The body says what words cannot.

—Martha Graham, 1985

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

—Anaïs Nin, 1935

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

—George Eliot, 1872

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

—Samuel Beckett, 1951

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

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883

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

—Marquis de Sade, 1797

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

—Fran Lebowitz, 1978

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

—Marcel Proust, 1919

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

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

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

—Andy Warhol, 1975

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

—Tom Stoppard, 1993