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

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

—William Shakespeare, c. 1596

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

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

—Marquis de Sade, 1797

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

—Kate Moss, 2009

The body says what words cannot.

—Martha Graham, 1985

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

One’s body, hair, and skin are a gift from one’s parents—do not dare to allow them to be harmed.

—Classic of Filial Piety, c. 200 BC

I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.

—Phyllis Diller, 1981

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

—Walt Whitman, 1855

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

—Andy Warhol, 1975