Quotes with nakedness

  • One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
  • Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.

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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Bernard Mandeville Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true motives of their hearts in the specious cloak of sociableness, and their concern for the public good, they are in hopes of concealing their filthy appetites and the deformity of their desires.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • John Donne Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Alfred Nobel Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
    Alfred Nobel
    Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist (1833 - 1896)
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  • Otto Von Bismarck I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
    Otto Von Bismarck
    German statesman and prime minister (1815 - 1898)
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  • Francis Bacon Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • John Berger Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Cesare Pavese One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Harold Pinter One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
    Harold Pinter
    English playwright, screenwriter and director (1930 - 2008)
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  • William Wordsworth Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. The soul that rises with us, our life's star, hath had elsewhere its setting, and comet from afar: not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Robert M. Hutchins The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
    Robert M. Hutchins
    American educational philosopher (1899 - 1977)
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