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Theophile Gautier

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

Theophile Gautier, French Poet
Body, Living
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"Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living."

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

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

Eric Hoffer, American Writer
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"Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun."

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"I'm not ready to be a woman yet, I'd like it if my body were more boyish. Maybe I'll like my curves when I'm older but right now they kind of make me squirm."

Vanessa Marcil, American Actress
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"If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free."

Sophocles, Greek Poet
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Debbie Gibson, American Musician
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