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. (Oscar Wilde)

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.

Oscar Wilde

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