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Jean Cocteau

"It is not I who become addicted, it is my body."

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"It is not I who become addicted, it is my body."

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"My body is a vehicle for the mechanics of my sport."

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"Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat."

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

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"The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up."

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"The third stage was the reaction that came when the body struggled to compensate for its ills - when, for instance, the white count not only returned to normal but increased to much higher than normal levels."

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"My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it."

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"Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality."

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"My dresses are very reasonably priced, for dresses that are cut on the body."

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"In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades."

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"If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body."

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"Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs."
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