Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

“Stripped of our clothes we are all naked, exposed to different human experiences. Stripped of our flesh, to the bone, we are the same.”

— Stephen McDonough

“I was as definitely outside their world as a cannibal is outside the bounds of civilized society. I was filled with a perverse love…

— Henry Miller

“All the things that seemed so exotic and exciting – cars, television, the fashions, the music, the buildings – were just surface. Under it…

— Dave Hutchinson

“The stark nakedness and simplicity of the conflict with which humanity is oppressed - that of getting angry with and wishing to hurt the…

— John Bowlby

“behind a very sturdily built and staunchly defended facade of practical, unromantic hard-headedness towards life, there was just that little pool of softness that…

— Isaac Asimov

“There are those among the Folk so hideous that all living things shrink back in horror. And yet others have a grotesquerie so exaggerated,…

— Holly Black

“Filth and vermin though they shock the over-nice are imperfections of the flesh closely related in the just imagination of the poet to excessive…

— William Carlos Williams

“that incongruity of common and elegant in which the habitually vulgar think they see the revelation of an eccentric existence, of the perturbations of…

— Gustave Flaubert

“The degeneracy of mankind is distinguished from its uprise by the dominance of chill abstractions, divorced from aesthetic content.”

— Alfred North Whitehead

“What had always attracted me in the opposite sex was what they tried to hide, what provoked all the metaphorical equivalents of seducing them…

— John Fowles The Magus

“Such was the hidden power of nature, capable of producing extreme beauty and cruelty at the same time.”

— Kenneth Eade

“in general, from the violation of a few simple laws of humanity arises the wretchedness of mankind - that as a species we have…

— Edgar Allan Poe