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• I felt ashamed." "But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?" "No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal -- of being a mortal." "But how could you help that?" "Don't you think the things people are most ashamed of are things they can't help?

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, People, Helping

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• It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, it has set up that single, unconscionable freedom -- free trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.

  Karl Marx

  Religious, Water, Political

  Karl Marx (2018). “The Communist Manifesto & Selected Writings: & Selected Writings”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• Anyone who thinks cryptozoology is the study of the impossible has never really taken a very good look at the so-called "natural world." Once you get past the megamouth sharks, naked mole rats, and spotted hyenas, then the basilisks, dragons, and cuckoos just don't seem that unreasonable. Unpleasant, yes, but unreasonable? Not really.

  Mira Grant

  Taken, Past, Thinking

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• I shouldn’t ask you to,” he said, devotion in every word, “but I’m going to. Wait for me, Jess. I’ll come back to you.” Naked emotion turned the sea green into hidden emeralds. Pressing her fingers to his lips, she shook her head. “You never have to ask, Galen. Forever, that’s how long I’d wait for you.

  Nalini Singh

  Sea, Long, Waiting

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Angels' Dance”, p.73, Penguin

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• And I never felt that good in my life. But I also felt bad because I saw her naked without her permission.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Saws, Permission, Felt

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Knowing, Beginners

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• You are too arrogant for your own good. I officially de-mate you. Go away. I never want to see you again. Except maybe tonight. Naked. Your place. But after that, no more.

  Katie MacAlister

  Going Away, Tonight, Arrogant

  Katie Macalister (2004). “You Slay Me”, p.218, Penguin

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• If abuses are destroyed, man must destroy them. If slaves are freed, man must free them. If new truths are discovered, man must discover them. If the naked are clothed; if the hungry are fed; if justice is done; if labor is rewarded; if superstition is driven from the mind; if the defenseless are protected, and if the right finally triumphs, all must be the work of man. The grand victories of the future must be won by man, and by man alone.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  People, Justice, Humanity

  "Ingersollia: Gems of Thought".

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• Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep but not oblivious of the unslept unsleeping elsewhere Tonight I think no poetry will serve Syntax of rendition: verb pilots the plane adverb modifies action verb force-feeds noun submerges the subject noun is choking verb disgraced goes on doing now diagram the sentence

  Adrienne Rich

  Sleep, Dark, Thinking

  Adrienne Rich (2011). “Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010: Poems 2007–2010”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Lassiter came in alone, likely because Doc Jane had returned to the Pit. And the angel was naked as a jaybird… and just frickin’ fine. No bullet holes, no scars, no contusions. “You keep looking at me like that and you’d better buy me dinner afterward.

  J.R. Ward

  Angel, Pits, Dinner

  J.R. Ward (2012). “Lover Reborn: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.289, Penguin

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• That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.

  Lionel Shriver

  Boys, Faces, Mask

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.149, Counterpoint Press

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• They strip-searched me!" he burst out. "Me! Old enough to be their grandfather and they made me stand naked in the road, my things all unpacked in the mud!

  Julia Golding

  Grandfather, Mud, Enough

  Julia Golding (2008). “Dragonfly”, p.257, Marshall Cavendish

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• Yes," I said "You were saved by a girl. Horrible, isn't it?" He slid out and looked down at my bare legs. "Not just a girl, but a half-naked one. Now that's hot. If I'm still unconscious, don't wake me, okay?

  Kelley Armstrong

  Girl, Hot, Half

  Kelley Armstrong (2012). “The Calling: Number 2 in series”, p.115, Hachette UK

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• Could he be naked beneath his breeches? They seemed molded to him, outlining the powerful lines of his thighs and the swell just above— Oh, God. She closed her eyes. She’d been looking at his—Not only was it rude, but it had sent an amazing tingle through her, almost as if she’d touched it. “Fiona, if you ever look at me like that again, I will not be held responsible for what I do.” Jack was so close that she could feel his breath on her temple. “Do you understand?

  Karen Hawkins

  Powerful, Eye, Rude

  Karen Hawkins (2007). “How to Abduct a Highland Lord”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• It's probably best for me to work off some energy before I get you naked. I'm sure you'd like to be able to walk tomorrow.

  Sylvia Day

  Energy, Able, Tomorrow

  FaceBook post by Sylvia Day from Apr 27, 2012

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• Something about the howling of a wolf took a man right out of his here and now and left him in a dark forest of the mind, running naked before the pack.

  George R. R. Martin

  Running, Dark, Men

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin Starter Pack 4-Book Bundle: A Game of Thrones, Dreamsongs: Volume I, Fevre Dream, Armageddon Rag”, p.84, Bantam

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• Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. Seeing me naked actually took Hazel Grace's breath away,' he said, nodding toward the oxygen tank.

  John Green

  Oxygen, Grace, Tanks

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.251, Penguin

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• Gwen smiled. "Hardly. Bedraggled is being in the full throes of nicotine withdrawal, and after a week on a bus with a group of senior citizens, falling into a cave, and landing on a body." "And then getting tossed back a few centuries, with no idea of what's going on," Chloe agreed. "Naked, too, weren't you?" Gwen nodded wryly. Gabby blinked. "I gave you my plaid," Drustan protested indignantly.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Senior, Fall, Ideas

  Karen Marie Moning (2004). “The Immortal Highlander”, p.201, Delacorte Press

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• People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Mirrors, People, No Friends

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.28, New Directions Publishing

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• The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again.

  Lisa Unger

  Leaving, Facade, Begin Again

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.24, Crown

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• My favorite fantasy? You come down into my daytime resting place stark naked," he said, and I could see the gleam of his teeth as he smiled. "Oh, wait," Bill said. "That's already happened.

  Charlaine Harris

  Waiting, Teeth, Bills

  Charlaine Harris (2012). “Deadlocked: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.178, Penguin

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• Now that I'm in your mind, want to see some naked mental pictures of Jace?

  Cassandra Clare

  Mind, Want, Jace

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• Because viewing my naked chest has caused many women to seriously injure themselves stampeding to get to me.

  Cassandra Clare

  Jace, Lost Souls, Shirt Off

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.2163, Simon and Schuster

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• If you cannot bear these stories then the society is unbearable. Who am I to remove the clothes of this society, which itself is naked. I don't even try to cover it, because it is not my job, that's the job of dressmakers.

  Saadat Hasan Manto

  Jobs, Clothes, Trying

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• No matter how long you stand there examining yourself naked before a mirror, you'll never see reflected what's inside.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mirrors, Long, Matter

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