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“I find it unbearable to need a body in order to exist.”

Book:Rituals

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Rituals

This book delves into the cultural and personal rituals that shape human experiences and relationships. more

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Cees Nooteboom

Cees Nooteboom is a Dutch novelist known for his unique literary style and profound insights into modern life. His works often explore themes of personal identity, memory, and time. more

“Let's face it, the human body is like a condominium apartment. The thing that keeps you really enjoying it is the maintenance. There's a tremendous amount of daily, weekly, monthly and yearly work that has to be done. From showering to open heart surgery, we're always doing something to ourselves. If your body was a used car, you wouldn't buy it.”

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Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable.”

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Author:Susan Sontag

“His view of time, and of change, has become that of most elderly people: he hates change, since for him - for his body - any change is for the worse. And if there is to be change, then he wants it to happen quickly, so it does not use up too much of the time remaining to him.”

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Author:Susan Sontag

“The point is to get a good rhythm, to make it mindless, almost as a daydream. To walk like breathing. To make it what the body wants, what the air wants, what time wants.”

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Book:The Volcano Lover

Source: The Volcano Lover

“A man never forgets his body the way a woman does, because a man is pushing his body, a part of his body, forward, to make the act of love happen. He brings the jut of his body into the act of love, then takes it back, when it has had its way.”

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Book:The Volcano Lover

Source: The Volcano Lover

“How boring just to be a body.”

Body Boring

Book:The Volcano Lover

Source: The Volcano Lover

“It is the action of bodies on bodies, not bodies on minds, which the crowd enjoys.”

Mind Body Action Enjoy Crowds

Author:Susan Sontag

“Where our language suggests a body and there is none: there, we should like to say, is a spirit.”

Should Body Spirit Language

Book:Philosophical Investigations

Source: Philosophical Investigations

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