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Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction. ↗

— Kevyn Aucoin

#any #beauty #beginning #correction #doing

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#among #common #common denominator #denominator #find

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#action #attention #both #cases #choice

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#anything #before #else #language #love

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#addictive #damnation #point #sins #tend

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#places #shy #sunny #these #where

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#cannot #cardinal #driven #impatience #only

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#consumed #dish #entertainment #food #forgotten

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#any #creation #emotion #everything #fleeting

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#being #called #class #games #human