“We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins”
George Bernard Shaw
“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
“I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.”
Otto von Bismarck
“Modesty died when clothes were born.”
Mark Twain
“The nakedness of woman is the work of God.”
William Blake
“Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: for she is thy mother's near kinswoman.”
Bible
“He who makes no secret of himself, enrages: so much reason have you for fearing nakedness.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
