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That's the mistake women make - you shouldn't see your makeup. We don't want to look like we've made an effort. ↗

— Lauren Hutton

#like #look #made #make #makeup

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#mistrust #must #past #present #provide

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#adapt #ever #imperative #inexorable #now

The result of this union would be, not the fortuitous result of a series of approximations and concessions, but the harmonious synthesis of two aspects of a single thought. ↗

— Jacques Ibert

#aspects #concessions #fortuitous #harmonious #result

I saw a guy being really abusive to his girlfriend. She was asking people to help, but no one would. When he grabbed her, I tried to separate them, but he turned on me. I punched him and knocked him down. It wasn't a scandal; I was just doing what anybody should. ↗

— Timothy Hutton

#asking #being #doing #down #girlfriend

Here's one thing I can't understand: people who are friends with their exes. ↗

— Timothy Hutton

#here #i #one thing #people #their

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#after #comes #expressing #inexpressible #nearest

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#considered #equivalent #father #mountains #walk

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#along #become #cutting #desire #desires

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#mad #make #shall #truth #you