#beau

Le sens de la toilette féminine est manifest: il s'agit de se 'parer' et se parer c'est s'offrir; les feministes hétérosexuelles se sont montrées naguère sur ce point aussi intransiseantes que les lesbiennes: elles refusaient de faire d'elles-même une marchandise qu'on exhibem elles adoptaient des tailleurs et des feutres secs; les robes ornées, décolletées leurs semblaient le symbole de l'ordre social qu'elles combattaient. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#feminism #feminists #symbol #beauty

The pale whiteness of her upturned face as she choked on the smoke; the tangled length of her hair as she tried to shake the flames from it; the beauty of her cherry-blossom robe as it burst into flame: it was all so cruel, so terrible! ↗

— Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

#japan #japanese #japanese-literature #beauty

Physical beauty is such a strange thing. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#physical #strange #strange thing #such #thing

Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#cultures #different #different cultures #members #some

I went to watch Coldplay in Florida and saw Chris Martin before they went on. He sang 'What Makes You Beautiful' before the chorus of 'Yellow' kicked in. That was so strange because he's an inspiration for me. I think he's so good, he's sick... he's a really nice guy too. ↗

— Harry Styles

#because #before #chorus #chris #coldplay

The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#local-government #small-is-beautiful #beauty

When I was starting, there were wool mills in the U.S. that could make you anything. The U.S. used to produce the most beautiful cotton denim in the world. Now all that is gone. ↗

— Anna Sui

#beautiful #cotton #could #gone #i

Did you know, that one night; one moonless, clear, shining night; with the shadowy silhouettes of trees crisp against the star-filled sky – I, on the high, level terrace of my flat, stretched out my hand! Against all odds and possibilities of unbelief and grief – a life of searchings, discontent, and a nagging sense of unreality… A spider-web intuition of a spread-out, intricate illusion that wilfully withheld the truth from me. ↗

— Radhika Mukherjee

#longing #our-particular-shadows #questioning #radhika-mukherjee #beauty

...a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs. ↗

— Steve Martin

#beauty

After the verb 'to Love,' 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world. ↗

— Bertha von Suttner

#beautiful #help #love #most #most beautiful