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

—Fran Lebowitz, 1978

The body says what words cannot.

—Martha Graham, 1985

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

—Tom Stoppard, 1993

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

—William Shakespeare, c. 1596

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

—Marquis de Sade, 1797

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.

—Willem de Kooning, 1949

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

—Chinua Achebe, 1958

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

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

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

—Marcel Proust, 1919

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

—Walt Whitman, 1855

Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1910

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920

To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

—George Eliot, 1872