Quote by John Berger
Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is

Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress. – John Berger

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Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why –but the editorialists forget it –terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking. – John Berger

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Words
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The human imagination… has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open. – John Berger

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Dreams
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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together. – John Berger

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Grief, Grieving
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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth. – Francis H. Bradley

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Nudity

I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring. – Otto von Bismarck

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Nudity

We shift and bedeck and bedrape us, thou art noble and nude and antique. – Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Nudity

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do today. – Will Rogers

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Nudity

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The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad. – Thomas Dolby

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The only way into truth is through ones own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation. – Simone Weil

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Truth

Many people can listen to their cat more intelligently than they can listen to their own despised body. Because they attend to their pet in a cherishing way, it returns their love. Their body, however, may have to let out an earth-shattering scream in order to be heard at all. – Marion Woodman

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Body

The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole. – Bernard Devoto

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