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

—Marquis de Sade, 1797

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

—Walt Whitman, 1855

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

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

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

—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961

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

—Tom Stoppard, 1993

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

—Samuel Beckett, 1951

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

—Anaïs Nin, 1935

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

—Dolly Parton, 2003

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920

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

—Marcel Proust, 1919

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

—Oscar Wilde, 1890

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

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949

Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1910