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Passion always goes, and boredom stays.
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Perfume heralds a woman’s arrival and prolongs her departure.
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To be irreplaceable, you have to be different.
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A major shortcoming of the Resistance is the outnumbering, before long, of the genuine warriors by camera-carrying midgets intent on leaving a record of their purported heroism.
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May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life.
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Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
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As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
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Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.
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As I now feel, I would wish to be borne off anywhere out of this world.
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You cannot keep up a nightlife and amount to anything in the day. You cannot indulge in those foods and liquors that destroy the physique and still hope to have a physique that functions with the minimum of destruction to itself. A candle burnt at both ends may shed a brighter light, but the darkness that follows is for a longer time.
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I stood up for myself as I always have done. Nobody has ever told Coco Chanel what to think.
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A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.
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I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.
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There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is.
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There are people who have money and people who are rich.
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Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.
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Elegance means being beautiful both on the inside and out.
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If you're sad, add more lipstick and attack.
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Fashion has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses. Most women dress for men and want to be admired. But they must also be able to move, to get into a car without bursting their seams! Clothes must have a natural shape.
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If a woman is poorly dressed, you notice her dress. If a woman is impeccably dressed, you notice the woman.
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The hat is not for the street: it will never be democratized. But there are certain houses that one cannot enter without a hat. And one must always wear a hat when lunching with people whom one does not know well. One appears to one's best advantage.
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There are rich people, and there are those who have money. They are not the same people.
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In the act of deciding what to eliminate, you place value on what's left behind.
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Women have always been the strong ones of the world.