"Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living."

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"Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Body, Water

"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."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Body, Consciousness, Imagination, Emotion

"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Body, Man, Water, World

"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

Body, Mind, Nothing

"If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Body, Mind

"It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate."

Dave Barry, American Journalist

Body, Fact, Will

"The body is not a reliable friend."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Body, Friend, Reliability, Trust

"Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"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."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

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"I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity."

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"Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves."

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"If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free."

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