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

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883

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

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.

—Willem de Kooning, 1949

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

—Karl Marx, 1860

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

—Phyllis Diller, 1981

It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.

—Leslie Jamison, 2014

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

—Anaïs Nin, 1935

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

—Andy Warhol, 1975

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

—Fran Lebowitz, 1978

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

—Walt Whitman, 1855

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

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

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

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170