"Stay naked as much as possible, but do not impose your orgiastic will on others. Don't have sex in the lobby - it's usually awkward."
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"When you walk with naked feet, how can you ever forget the Earth?"
"Sing your praise of progress and the doom machine, the naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen."
"Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now."
"Like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when a' was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife."
"She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was not a comrade and could never be - for a woman. And that no one would ever be that version of herself which she sought to reach out to and touch with an ungloved hand. There was only her own mood and whim, and if that was all there was, she decided to turn the naked hand toward it, discover it and let others become as intimate with their own selves as she was."
"People in extreme conditions are suddenly naked, realer than normal, perhaps even more alive."
"Sense your presence, the naked, unveiled, unclothed beingness. It is untouched by young or old, rich or poor, good or bad, or any other attributes."
"A man without a horse is like a man without a weapon: stunted and naked."
"Bizarre and engrossingly disturbing, Naked Lunch, finds truth in madness."
"Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak."
"It's illegal to be naked."
"I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the shipload every fifteen minutes or so."
"No matter how long you stand there examining yourself naked before a mirror, you'll never see reflected what's inside."
"What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless?"
"If God had meant for us to be naked, we'd have been born that way."
"I realized that I had the call to take care of the sick and the dying, the hungry, the naked, the homeless - to be God's Love in action to the poorest of the poor. That was the beginning of the Missionaries of Charity."
"Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I am naked under my shirt, whatever its colour."
"But why I cry out against Rubens is because he painted undressed people instead of naked ones."
"What a frail, easily hurt, rather pathetic thing a human body is, naked; somehow a little unfinished, incomplete!"