Not only have people stopped trying to be attractive when they are out among other people, but they are no longer even trying not to look ugly!

Not only have people stopped trying to be
attractive when they are out among other people, but they are no longer even
trying not to look ugly!

Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.

In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties.

A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive. The women you see on posters or in fashion magazines-the ones all the women try to imitate nowadays-how can they be attractive? They have no reality of their own; they're just the sum of a set of abstract rules. They aren't born of human bodies; they hatch ready-made from the computers." ~The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

How goodness heightens beauty!