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"The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body."

"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."

"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black."

"I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more."

"I did, like, a couple of sexier videos, because all of a sudden I went, 'Wow, I have a body. I have this side of me that I haven't shown yet.' And I started kind of playing around with that side of things."
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"What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing."
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"It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do."

"To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude."

"Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable."

"The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life."
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