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Coco Chanel
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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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“Fashion is made to become unfashionable.”
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“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.”
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“Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.”
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“Jump out of the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it, if you feel it ... passion goes, boredom remains.”
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“The problem of aging is the problem of living. There is no simple solution.”
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“Happiness is the secret of beauty. But who knows the secret of happiness? The wise woman keeps her cosmetics at hand.”
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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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“Some people pursue unhappiness because happiness is too mild a sensation.”
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“One should not seek happiness, but rather happy people.”
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“As long as you know that most men are like children, you know everything.”
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“When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for.”
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“Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.”
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“Great loves too must be endured.”
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“Material things aside, we need not advice but approval.”
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“I have only one curiosity left: death.”
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“Traveling is so complicated. There are so many people everywhere. I make my best journeys on my couch.”
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“Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.”
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“That's what fame is: solitude.”
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“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.”
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“So that's how you die.”
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“A dress made right should allow one to walk, to dance, even to ride horseback.”
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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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“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”
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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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“There is time for work, and time for love. That leaves no other time.”
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“If you were born without wings do nothing to prevent their growing.”
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“Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart.”
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“You live but once, you might as well be amusing.”
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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.”
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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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“[Perfume] is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion ... that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.”
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“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”
Coco Chanel, French courturier
(1883 - 1971)
Full name: Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel.