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Coco Chanel
Quotes by Coco Chanel
Quotes by Coco Chanel
“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
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“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”
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“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.”
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“As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!”
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“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”
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“Fashion fades, only style remains the same.”
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“A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.”
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“Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.”
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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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“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
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“Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.”
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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.”
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“Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”
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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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“Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.”
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“Fashion is made to become unfashionable.”
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“A woman has the age she deserves.”
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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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“Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.”
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“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”
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“Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.”
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“Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.”
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“Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”
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“Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.”
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“Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.”
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“Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.”
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“Elegance is refusal.”
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“Great loves too must be endured.”
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“There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!”
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“My friends, there are no friends.”
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