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

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949

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

—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.

—Willem de Kooning, 1949

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

—Kate Moss, 2009

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

—W.H. Auden, c. 1967

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

The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883

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

—Leslie Jamison, 2014

There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.

—Karl Marx, 1860

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

—Walt Whitman, 1855

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

—Oscar Wilde, 1890

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

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947