„…and if you are common, you can dress up as a woman, show you behind or write poems: there’s nothing offensive about a naked behind if it’s everybody’s; each person will be mirrored in it.“

— Jean Paul Sartre

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„It was a catch-22: If you didn’t put the trauma behind you, you couldn’t move on. But if you did put the trauma behind you, you willingly gave up your claim to the person you were before it happened.“
— Jodi Picoult
„You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.“
— Henry Rollins
„What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except that you happen to be the same person.“
— George Orwell
„a poem is a naked person... some people say that I am a poet“
— Bob Dylan
„Where are those who protect honour, and those self-respecting persons who defend respectable persons in the time of hardship? Shame is behind you while Paradise is in front of you.“
— Ali
„Art gives me the freedom I don’t have when I make music. In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.“
— Marilyn Manson