“The body is the easiest thing to adjust to... It’s the life, the context of the body, that can be hard to grasp.”

“The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project”

“It’s so hard for women—even nice women—to realize that their bodies are not irresistible.”

“And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.”

“In the human life time is but an instant, and the substance of it a flux, and the perception dull, and the composition of the whole body subject to putrefaction, and the soul a whirl, and fortune hard to divine, and fame a thing devoid of certainty. And, to say all in a word, everything that belongs to the body is a stream, and what belongs to the soul is a dream and vapor, and life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after- fame is oblivion. What then can guide a man? One thing and only one, philosophy.”

“A woman has so many parts to her body, life is very hard indeed.”