{"quotes":[{"text":"Walking around nude in front of humans was not a good way to keep a low profile with the community. It was an excellent way to make new friends, though.","author":"Rachel Vincent","tags":["humor","nakedness","rogue","vincent"],"id":16384,"author_id":"Rachel+Vincent"},{"text":"The more severely he struggles to hold on to the primal face-to-face relation with God, the more tenuous this becomes, until in the end the relation to God Himself threatens to become a relation to Nothingness.","author":"William Barrett","tags":["doubt","god","meaninglessness","nakedness","nothingness","relation","religion","self"],"id":17887,"author_id":"William+Barrett"},{"text":"He had threatened my parents. I had to remember that. Still, it was really hard to stay mad at a wounded naked man.","author":"Darynda Jones","tags":["humor","men","nakedness"],"id":76679,"author_id":"Darynda+Jones"},{"text":"Civilization is a scheme to hide nakedness.","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["civilization","nakedness"],"id":121078,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"},{"text":"A poet is someone who never forgets they were born naked.","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["nakedness","poetry","poets","vulnerability"],"id":161966,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"},{"text":"Integrity is the best attire to put on because the without integrity one cannot conceal his nakedness.","author":"Gugu Mona","tags":["attire","best","conceal","integrity","nakedness"],"id":168709,"author_id":"Gugu+Mona"},{"text":"Even the oldest trees aren't ashamed to stand naked.","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["honesty","nakedness","shame","transparency"],"id":229967,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"},{"text":"And once we reach the city, my stylist will dictate my look for the opening ceremonies tonight anyway. I just hope I get one who doesn't think nudity is the last word in fashion.","author":"Suzanne Collins","tags":["fashion","nakedness"],"id":283724,"author_id":"Suzanne+Collins"},{"text":"Above Constance's desk were nude photographs of women in 1930s France, draped in provocative poses. She had put them there for Bob's viewing pleasure and in return he had placed African art of naked men above his desk for her.","author":"Cecelia Ahern","tags":["1930s","african-art","bob-dubois","constance-dubois","desks","france","kitty-logan","nakedness","pleasure"],"id":301241,"author_id":"Cecelia+Ahern"},{"text":"A society coming apart at top and bottom, or passing over into another form, contains just as many possibilities for revelation as a society running along smoothly in its own rut. The individual is thrust out of the sheltered nest that society has provided. He can no longer hide his nakedness by the old disguises. He learns how much of what he has taken for granted was by its own nature neither eternal nor necessary but thoroughly temporal and contingent. He learns that the solitude of the self is an irreducible dimension of human life no matter how completely that self had seemed to be contained in its social milieu. In the end, he sees each man as solitary and unsheltered before his own death. Admittedly, these are painful truths, but the most basic things are always learned with pain, since our inertia and complacent love of comfort prevent us from learning them until they are forced upon us. It appears that man is willing to learn about himself only after some disaster; after war, economic crisis, and political upheaval have taught him how flimsy is that human world in which he thought himself so securely grounded. What he learns has always been there, lying concealed beneath the surface of even the best-functioning societies; it is no less true for having come out of a period of chaos and disaster. But so long as man does not have to face up to such a truth, he will not do so.","author":"William Barrett","tags":["confrontation","death","meaninglessness","nakedness","pain","revelation","societal-disintegration","society","solitude","stranger-to-all","system","truth","unprotectedness","unsheltered"],"id":331422,"author_id":"William+Barrett"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}