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

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

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

—Chinua Achebe, 1958

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

—Oscar Wilde, 1890

Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1910

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

—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

—Kate Moss, 2009

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

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64

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

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

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

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

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883

My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.

—W.H. Auden, c. 1967

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

—Marcel Proust, 1919