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Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

—Kate Moss, 2009

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920

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

—Tom Stoppard, 1993

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

—Anaïs Nin, 1935

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

—William Shakespeare, c. 1596

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

—Karl Marx, 1860

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

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949

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

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

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

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

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

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883