"This for God and this for myself; This for my soul, and this other for my body?"
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"Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the state die? Oh, no."
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"There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind."
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"Whatever role I do, I've got to do the work. It all starts with the body. Get that ready and everything else follows."
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"Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body."
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"A new dress. Is this all it takes to make a new beginning, this shred of dyed cloth, shaped into the form of a woman's body?"
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"I'm reminded of the arm, and the body, and the appendage."
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"Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present"
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"Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to."
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"Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)"
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"A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else."
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"At some point, my body will collapse. But I hope that my brain will still be working so that I can carry on with writing."
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"I have to make sure I exercise and that the ingredients that go into my body are completely organic."
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"on him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body."
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"Whoever refuses to obey the general will will be forced to do so by the entire body; this means merely that he will be forced to be free."
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"The political body, therefore, is also a moral being which has a will; and this general will, which tends always to the conservation and well-being of the whole and of each part of it ... is, for all members of the state ... the rule of what is just or unjust."
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"I clung to nothing, in a way I was calm. But it was a horrible calm—because of my body; my body, I saw with its eyes, I heard with its ears, but it was no longer me; it sweated and trembled by itself and I didn’t recognize it any more."
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"My body is the only thing that’s truly mine, so I don’t give it away as though it’s worthless."
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"You don't have body parts there do you?" my mother interrupted. "I don't want to open the fridge and find a head on the shelf" Rodney laughed. "No Justina, it doesn't look like Jeffrey Dahmer's hideaway."
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"All the rest of the world could only kill or devastate my mind and body. Bones alone held the power to demolish my soul."
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