Katastroika (1988)
Context: The members of the commission flew to Partgrad the very next day – it was an unprecendented case in the Soviet Union. During the Brezhnev era, it would have taken a couple of months for all the discussions, after which the commission would have flown for a holiday to the Crimea or Caucasus in a body. And really, why should one fly to a certain Partgrad if everyone knows that all those ‘Lighthouses’ are mere swindle.
“To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.”
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
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Source: On the Mystical Body of Christ, pp. 419-420

Ram Lila Grounds, Delhi, India, October 29, 1966 (translated from Hindi) - Published in Divine Light (UK) April 1, 1973, Volume 2, Issue 7
1960s

“I finally have the body I want. It's easy, actually, you just have to want a really shitty body.”
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Source: The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form (1951), Ch. 1: The Naked and the Nude

“Unforgettably horrible is the naked body. It really does not have the slightest charm.”
The Diary of Lady Murasaki