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

—Karl Marx, 1860

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920

Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1910

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

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883

If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.

—Dolly Parton, 2003

The body says what words cannot.

—Martha Graham, 1985

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

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

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

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

—Samuel Beckett, 1951

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

—William Shakespeare, c. 1596

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.

—Willem de Kooning, 1949

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

—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961