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

—Dolly Parton, 2003

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920

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

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

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

—Leslie Jamison, 2014

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

—Walt Whitman, 1855

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.

—Willem de Kooning, 1949

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

—Anaïs Nin, 1935

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

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947

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

—Oscar Wilde, 1890

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

—Marcel Proust, 1919

The body says what words cannot.

—Martha Graham, 1985

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

—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961

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

—Phyllis Diller, 1981