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"I remember very distinctly being so tall I didn't fit sleeves, so I ended up modeling lingerie and bathing suits, sleeveless stuff, basically. I didn't have a good body, but I believed I knew how to stand or pose to mask it."
"No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It's the same for your parents as it is for you - what's happening in your body dictates everything."
"The human heart was undeniably the stupidest organ in the body."
"Scars are stories, history written on the body"
"The sea where living creatures were at one time immersed is now enclosed within their bodies."
"Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of the ancient Clarices, fragmentary and dead."
"Christ didn't leave us a book of instructions; He left us a body, a family - a Church. If it were perfectly clear, there wouldn't be any freedom."
"His heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small restless body."
"The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease."
"Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do."
"Showing a real human body and a woman who is looking at her body without shame - that alone is a radical notion. Showing a young woman who is honest about what she is experiencing and letting us into her most intimate, darkest thoughts, all of that is just promoting something that we don't get to see about young women."
"Your body will never be familiar."
"And the first till last alshemist wrote over every square inch of the only foolscap available, his own body, till by its corrosive sublimation one continuous present tense integument slowly unfolded all marryvoising moodmoulded cyclewheeling history."
"I don't believe there's an afterlife - but I don't believe there's an end to life. Consciousness goes beyond the bounds of your body."
"He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again."
"The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable."
"No one believes you’re serious until bodies start to fall. -Vlad"
"It's my body, and it should be my choice, and the fact that it is not my choice is absolutely disgusting."
"Every corporeal substance, so far forth as it is corporeal, has a natural fitness for resting in every place where it may be situated by itself beyond the sphere of influence of a body cognate with it."
"Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign."
