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Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings. ↗

— Levi Strauss

#beings #carry #centuries #evidence #happened

I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#i #kind #life #niceties #taught

Les coutures, les modes sont souvent apliquées à couper les corps féminin de a transcendance: la Chinoise aux pieds bandés peut à peine marcher, les griffes vernies de la star d'Hollywood la privent de ses mains, les hauts talons, les corsets, les paniers, les vertugadins, les crinolines étaient destinés moins à accentuer la combrure du corps féminin qu'à en augmenter l'impotence. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#objectification-of-women #beauty

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired. ↗

— Robert Strauss

#like #little #quit #tired #wrestling

If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed. ↗

— Robert Strauss

#increase #sales #sales tax #tax #taxed

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#constraints #execution #frees #imposes #more

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being? ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#alone #being #essence #penetrating #succeed

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love? ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#dynamic #force #love #more #must

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#bring #called #cannot #forth #i

Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#lives #out #percent #playing #spend