"No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century."
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"Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world."
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"I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress."
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"It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly."
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"I think we live only through our dreams and our imagination."
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"People who eat white bread have no dreams."
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"The best time to leave a party is when the party’s just beginning. There’s no drink that kills except the drink that you didn’t want to take, as the saying goes, and there’s no hour that kills except the hour you stayed after you wanted to go home."
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"The personality is a work of art."
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"Where would fashion be without literature?"
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"I think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades."
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"Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!"
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"Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull."
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"For goodness sakes, beware of curls… It is a great art to do them so that the girls not only look modern - but do not suddenly look very vulgar."
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"All creations demand greenery of spirt."
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"Why don't you have a room done up in every color green? This will take months, years, to collect, but it will be delightful-a melange of plants, green glass, green porcelains, and furniture covered in sad greens, gay greens, clear, faded, and poison greens?"
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"Black is the hardest color in the world to get right-except for gray."
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"Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born."
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"This is a great shame, but of course there have to be some things in life that not everybody can have, and great perfume is one of them."
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"A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that’s one thing; but a lie to make life more interesting—well, that’s entirely different."
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"The West is boring itself to death! And talking itself to death!"
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