Virginia Woolf, 1916.
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"What’s imperfect is beautiful. What’s imperfect is alive."
— Kio Stark, Follow Me Down
15 year old Sylvia Plath in 1947.
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"I cried over beautiful things knowing no beautiful thing lasts."
— Carl Sandburg, from “Autumn Movement” (via proustitute)
"As I walked I looked at the dark basalt hills, and at the cactus and shrubs and trees; all of them were in harmony with one another, and I felt within that beauty. In an instant I saw that even man-made things—the roll of old fence wire, the old rail ties withered by sixty years of the heat and sun—were in the light of that beauty. In that beauty we all will sink slowly back into the lap of the earth."
— Leslie Marmon Silko, The Turquoise Ledge
Virginia Woolf, approximately in 1895.
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Virginia Woolf
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"I was not afraid of horror, I was afraid of beauty, of what it could do to me if I let it."
"People often say that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves."
— Salma Hayek (via kari-shma) (via dreaminginthedeepsouth)
