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"Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes." »James Arthur Baldwin
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"Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness." »Alfred Bernhard Nobel
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"The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship." »George Frost Kennan
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"She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel." »Faith Sullivan
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"It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals." »Homer
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