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“Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.”

Book:The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c

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The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c

The Works of Michael de Montaigne is a comprehensive compilation of the writings of the renowned philosopher. It encompasses Montaigne's essays, which are considered foundational to the essay form, his personal correspondence, and his travel narratives from Germany and Italy. The volume also features annotations and additional biographical and bibliographical information provided by various commentators. more

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Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne was a French Renaissance philosopher, essayist, and writer. He is considered one of the most significant figures in the history of the essay. Montaigne's work, particularly his book 'Essays', has been influential in the development of modern prose. more

“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.”

World Way Mind Reason Subjects Pure Standards Clean Naked Acquire Clothings Adam Conventions Modesty Modest Whim Descendants Adam And Eve Diseased Caprice Artificiality

Author:Mark Twain

“How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?”

Ifs Body Given Cases Civilization Clothings Shut Up Idiotic Fiddle Breastfeeding

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“This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been.”

Lasts Civilization Clothes Prisoner Spheres Clothings Restriction Hindrance Nuisance Conventionality

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“For a time Jack was angry; but when he had been without the jacket for a short while he began to realize that being half-clothed is infinitely more uncomfortable than being entirely naked. Soon he did not miss his clothing in the least, and from that he came to revel in the freedom of his unhampered state.”

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“By now I was utterly deprogrammed. I walked along naked usually, clothes being not only putrid but unnecessary. My skin had been baked a deep terra-cotta brown and was the constituency of harness leather. The sun no longer penetrated it. I retained my hat.”

Sun Clothes Skins Naked Brown Hats Clothings Unnecessary Leather Harness

Book:Tracks

Source: Tracks

“The best dress for walking is nakedness. But our sad though fascinating world rarely offers the right and necessary combinations of weather and privacy, and even when it does the Utopia never seems to last very long.”

World Long Doe Seems Lasts Walking Offers Dresses Weather Combination Privacy Fascinating Clothings Utopia

Author:Colin Fletcher

“Now, nakedness is a delightful condition. And it keeps you very pleasantly cool - especially, I suppose, if you happen to be a man. But as I walked on eastward that afternoon through my private, segregated, Tonto world (exercising due care at first for previously protected sectors of my anatomy) I found I had gained more than coolness. I felt a quite unexpected freedom from restraint. And after a while I found that I had moved on to a new kind of simplicity. A simplicity that had a fitting, Adam-like, in-the-beginning earliness about it.”