#side

Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn? ↗

— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

#beauty #believes #centuries #considered #does

I think I would probably die without my eyeliner, but besides that I'm pretty basic. ↗

— Avril Lavigne

#besides #die #i #i think #pretty

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed. ↗

— Antoine Lavoisier

#composition #consider #formed #i #kinds

Well, I never got into the young adult headspace. With 'Twilight,' they are pretty adult themes, aside from maybe the first one, but even that. They're very adult themes, actually, particularly as the characters age. I never wrote for young adults. I wrote for myself, as an audience. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#adult #age #aside #audience #be the first

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#americas #columbus #conquer #discover #great

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas! ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#art #aside #bones #glorious #how

One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#ghastly #hideous #like #live #longer

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure. ↗

— Jennifer Lawrence

#back #considered #even #failure #far

You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#being #between #dealing #going #inside

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#thomas-jefferson #respect