Bare Essence Quotes

The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.

it ain't no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones

When you play Mozart, it's so clean, it's so simple. It's the body naked.

Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality.

It's the ultimate task to do something stripped back, so you're not hiding behind anything.

When we strip away the clothes, the jewelry, that's who we really are. I walk around naked in my house.

Loss is essential, loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. Mind you, I'm not complaining. Thanks to some inexplicable universal guiding force, it is always the worthless things we lose - slough off, like a moulting snake. Losing and losing again, is the very basis of the process, til all we are left with is the bare essence of human existence.