Enjoy Your Style

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see Beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see Beauty never grows old.

— Frank Kafka (via fuckyeahkickassquotes)

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I once second guessed my instincts and had a stylist come over to my house and help me go through my vintage collection with me, and I remember she picked up a beautiful pair of 1930’s shoes and said “these would look SO cute with jeans” and that was the moment I realised that she knew nothing about me (I don’t even own jeans) and that I was best off staying true to my own personal style rather than let someone else tell me what is right and what is wrong, and putting her own tastes on me.

— Dita Von Teese

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missclarabow:

“He was not just the best ballroom dancer, or tap dancer, he was simply the greatest, most imaginative, dancer of our time.”

- Rudolf Nureyev

While I was girl of the year and superstar and all that crap, everything I did was really…motivated by psychological disturbance. But I’d, I’d make a mask out of my face because I didn’t realize I was quite beautiful…I had to wear heavy black eyelashes like bat wings and dark lines under my eyes. Cut all my hair off, my long dark hair, cut it off and strip it silver and blond. All these little manoeuvres I did out of things that were happening in my life that upset me. I’d freak out in a very physical way, and…it was all taken in a fashion trend.

— Edie Sedgwick (this is a great read!)

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A girl doesn’t need anyone who doesn’t need her.

— Marilyn Monroe (via adayolder)

Beauty! I can’t endure the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom. What’s still more awful is that a man with the ideal of Sodom in his soul does not renounce the ideal of the Madonna, and his heart may be on fire with that ideal, genuinely on fire, just as in his days of youth and innocence. Yes, man is broad, too broad, indeed. I’d have him narrower. The devil only knows what to make of it! What to the mind is shameful is beauty and nothing else to the heart. Is there beauty in Sodom? Believe me, that for the immense mass of mankind beauty is found in Sodom. Did you know that secret? The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.

— Dimitri, to Alyosha, The Brothers Karamazov

If a person truly wants to live, he can make any place he wants a heaven.

— Yui Ikari (via civetta)

You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. You have to put up with people projecting their own ideas, attitudes, misunderstanding you. But it’s worth being a public fool if that’s all you can be in order to communicate yourself.

— Edie Sedgwick

Everything that’s realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.

— Sharon Tate (via 1wordatatime)

Satan always appears as some beauty, some angelic beauty.

— David Tibet (via cavesoflilith)

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