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

—George Eliot, 1872

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.

—Willem de Kooning, 1949

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

—Fran Lebowitz, 1978

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

—Samuel Beckett, 1951

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

—Andy Warhol, 1975

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

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

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

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947

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

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

—Tom Stoppard, 1993

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

—Kate Moss, 2009

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

—Marcel Proust, 1919

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

—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961