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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

Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

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

—Andy Warhol, 1975

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

—Kate Moss, 2009

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

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883

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

The body says what words cannot.

—Martha Graham, 1985

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

—W.H. Auden, c. 1967

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

—Marquis de Sade, 1797

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

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947

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

—Fran Lebowitz, 1978

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

—Marcel Proust, 1919