"Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious."
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"I was always sort of a loner, I suppose. I always had to think out everything for myself... I suppose that is what you call a loner."
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"Allure is a word very few people use nowadays, but it's something that exists. Allure holds you, doesn't it? Whether it's a gaze or a glance in the street or a face in the crowd or someone sitting opposite you at lunch... you are held"
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"The hottest thing in the world is to wear pants with stockings."
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"Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation."
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"Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything."
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"Where Chanel came from in France is anyone’s guess. She said one thing one day and another thing the next. She was a peasant—and a genius. Peasants and geniuses are the only people who count and she was both."
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"You've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning."
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"I have a terrible time remembering exactly when my birthday is. Age is totally boring."
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"I'm a person who is only invested in the pleasures and enjoyments of life. All the rest is left to the men. I've always remained what you might call "feminine" about the whole [work] thing."
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"All people are meant to be creative in a certain way. What way? Perhaps I was cut out to be a wonderful housewife, with a marvelous sense of cooking, being with my friends, running a perfect house. But I am not ambitious towards anything."
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"I wonder about prisoners. They're told, "You are free, you are innocent, you can go anywhere." I'm sure they usually feel nothing. They don't burst into tears or hysterics or joy or "I told you so." It's nothing. To be on the straight path isn't a bloody thing. It's just ordinary."
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"I never felt comfortable about my looks until I married Reed Vreeland. I believe in love at first sight because that's what it was. I knew the moment our eyes met that we would marry."
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"Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity."
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"Every girl in the world should have geisha training"
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"Lighting is everything in a color."
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"My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing."
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"One is born with good taste. It's very hard to acquire. You can acquire the patina of taste. But what Elsie Mendl had was something else that's particularly American––an appreciation of vulgarity. Vulgarity is a very important ingredient in life. I'm a great believer in vulgarity––if it's got vitality. A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste––it's hearty, it's healthy, it's physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I'm against."
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"I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself. I also believe that energy is habit -- which can be created quite easily. In other words, use your energy and more energy flows and then it is very hard to stop it -- as if one would ever want to!"
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"A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever."
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