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

—Tom Stoppard, 1993

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

—Phyllis Diller, 1981

The body says what words cannot.

—Martha Graham, 1985

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

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947

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

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

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

—Anaïs Nin, 1935

It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.

—Leslie Jamison, 2014

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

—Andy Warhol, 1975

Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1910

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

—George Eliot, 1872

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

—Oscar Wilde, 1890

My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.

—W.H. Auden, c. 1967

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

—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961