"Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee?"
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"Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination."
"No naked man is sought after to be rifled."
"A naked moon stood in a naked sky."
"With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book."
"I hate it when men go to strip bars. It lowers the rest of us that know if a man has to pay to see a woman naked, he is a loser and probably should get weeded out."
"My fear is naked, I'm naked and fearless, And my fear is naked..."
"Our ingress into the world Was naked and bare; Our progress through the world Is trouble and care."
"Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have entered it naked, unashamed, and clean in mind. They entered it modest. They had to acquire immodesty in the soiled mind, there was no other way to get it. ... The convention mis-called "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anyone's whim - anyone's diseased caprice."
"Not all the Greek runners in the original Olympics were totally naked. Some wore shoes."
"Jenks, you can fly me up the rest of the way to Trent, and then pow! I give Trent his statue." "Pow, you'll be naked!" Jenks exclaimed. (Rachel and Jenks)"
"Seeing a woman's child is like seeing a woman naked, in the way it changes how her face looks to you, how her face becomes less the whole story."
"Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked."
"Brutality was imprisoned in a lumious glare revealing the naked truth to the whole world"
"The fact is that I have lived with the belief that power, any kind of power, was the one thing forbidden to poets. ... Power requires that the inner person never be unmasked. No, we poets have to go naked. And since this is so, it is better that we stay private people; a naked public person would be rather ridiculous, what?"
"Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirt"
"She had come to him to escape her mother's world, a world where all bodies were equal. She had come to him to make her body unique, irreplaceble. But he, too had drawn an equal sign between her and the rest of them: he kissed them all alike, stroked them all alike, made no, absolutely no distiction between Tereza's body and the other bodies. He sent her back to the world she tried to escape, sent to march naked with the other naked women"
"Faith is a gift of God. Without it there would be no life. And our work, to be fruitful, and to be all for God, and to be beautiful, has to be built of faith. Faith in Christ who has said, I was hungry, I was naked, I was sick, and I was homeless, and you ministered to me! On these words of His all our work is based."
"I was still wearing my shoes. The staff was paid to wash the sheets after every visit, and by the point we left the field, I’d dressed and undressed so many times in the course of decontamination that I never wanted to remove my clothes again. I’d just wear them until they dissolved, and then spend the rest of my life naked."
"Shaun get your sister her glasses. She looks naked without them. It's creeping me out."