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Our bodies too are always and endlessly changing; what we have been today, we shall not be tomorrow.

—OVID

The body is not a thing but a situation.

—SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

If I had to choose between the two phases of life, I am truly not sure on which my choice would fall. For when one leaves erotic experience in the narrower sense, one is at the same time leaving a cul-de-sac, however marvelous it may be, where there is only room for two abreast, and one now continues, upon a vast expanse—the expanse of which childhood too was a part and which for only a while we were bound to forget.

—LOU ANDREAS-SALOMÉ

Something tender, secret, and painful draws out the intimacy which keeps vigil in us, extending its glimmer into that animal darkness.

—GEORGES BATAILLE

Then animals long believed gone crept down From trees. We took stock of one another.

—TRACY K. SMITH