A Quote by D. H. Lawrence
What a frail, easily hurt, rather pathetic thing a human body is, naked; somehow a little unfinished, incomplete!
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What it comes down to, you see, is that a naked body is just a naked body.
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What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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