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There are rich people, and there are those who have money. They are not the same people.
Coco Chanel
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A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.
Coco Chanel
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No elegance is possible without perfume. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory.
Coco Chanel
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Material things aside, we need not advice but approval.
Coco Chanel
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I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.
Coco Chanel
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Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
Coco Chanel
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For a woman betrayal has no sense - one cannot betray one's passions.
Coco Chanel
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If my boy had perished in a Nazi compound, I could never have gone on living. I would have killed myself.
Coco Chanel
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Passion always goes, and boredom stays.
Coco Chanel
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Elegance means being beautiful both on the inside and out.
Coco Chanel
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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.
Coco Chanel
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A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
Coco Chanel
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Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory.
Coco Chanel
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Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
Coco Chanel
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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.
Coco Chanel
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Simplicity is the key of elegance.
Coco Chanel
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Disregarding the fact that I am old enough to be [Walter] Schellenberg's mother, I would feel nauseated to be coupled with a man whose ideology has debased our hearts.
Coco Chanel
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Keep your heels, head & standards high!
Coco Chanel
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Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.
Coco Chanel
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I'm for style - fashions change too often.
Coco Chanel
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God knows I wanted love... but the moment I had to choose between the man I loved and my dresses... I chose the dresses.
Coco Chanel
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Fashion becomes unfashionable. Style never.
Coco Chanel
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I remember confuting one of Westminster's favourite maxims, "better the devil you know than the devil you don't". In the annals of popular wisdom, this is one of the most cretinous sayings I have come across.
Coco Chanel
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Eat less than you think you want, eat with your intelligence, not your stomach. Never get up from the table with an inward, silent apology for being a pig.
Coco Chanel
