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

—Oscar Wilde, 1890

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

—Phyllis Diller, 1981

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

—Fran Lebowitz, 1978

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

—Andy Warhol, 1975

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

—Tom Stoppard, 1993

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

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947

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

—Marquis de Sade, 1797

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

—William Shakespeare, c. 1596

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

—Anaïs Nin, 1935

The body says what words cannot.

—Martha Graham, 1985

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

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949

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

—Dolly Parton, 2003

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.

—Willem de Kooning, 1949