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“Perhaps we might, within the anatomy of our imaginations, think once more of the naked body as a vessel of grace, taste and wonder. In the spotted history of art, stranger things have happened.”

Thinking Art Body Might Imagination Wonder Grace Happened Taste Stranger Naked Shock Vessel Anatomy

Author:Robert Genn

“The best kisses in the world take place at night, in the ocean, with two naked bodies coiled around one another, only the stars to keep them company.”

World Two Body Night Stars Company Kissing Ocean Naked Best Kiss

Author:Hugh Howey

“What a frail, easily hurt, rather pathetic thing a human body is, naked; somehow a little unfinished, incomplete!”

Humans Littles Body Hurt Naked Human Body Pathetic Incomplete Unfinished Frail

Book:D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)

Source: D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)

“Though this new forest grew mightily, elsewhere the mighty jungles fell. Elsewhere the coastal rain forests that furred the body of the world were torn and riven. Elsewhere the last of the old growth the last of the world's own garment were ripped away. It was in this time, now, that the mother of us all was stripped naked and left to die in shame of her children, she who had been robed in glory like this, adorned like this. I bent my head upon the roots and wept, sorrowing for the trees.”

World Children Body Lasts Mother Dies Left Growth Tree Grew Glory Rain Roots Shame Forests Naked Elsewhere Bent Torn Jungle Garments Ripped Coastal

Author:Sheri S. Tepper

“Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.”

Body Life Is Dresses Naked Things In Life Uniforms Only Time Civilians

Author:Jose Saramago

“Friendship is by its very nature freer of deceit than any other relationship we can know because it is the bond least affected by striving for power, physical pleasure, or material profit, most liberated from any oath of duty or of constancy. With Eros the body stands naked, in friendship our spirit is denuded.”

Knows Body Spirit Pleasure Materials Duty Strive Profit Naked Deceit Affected Oath Liberated Constancy Eros

Book:Adam & Eve and the City: Selected Non Fiction

Source: Adam & Eve and the City: Selected Non Fiction

“Parsons always seem to be specially horrified about things like sunbathing and naked bodies. They don't mind poverty and misery and cruelty to animals nearly as much.”

Mind Body Seems Animal Poverty Atheism Misery Positive Atheism Naked Cruelty Animal Cruelty Sunbathing

Book:The Story of Julian

Source: The Story of Julian

“I had to be physically and emotionally naked, show both my body and soul. I felt emotionally vulnerable and physically exposed, it was a hard choice to make but I was intrigued since the beginning. I think that...the things that scare you the most are the ones you gotta do.”

Thinking Soul Hard Shows Body Choices Felt Naked Vulnerable Scare Exposed Intrigued

Author:Dakota Johnson