"People with tiny glasses and costly shoes can always find a couple of hours to explain how you did it all wrong."
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"Not belonging is a terrible feeling. It feels awkward and it hurts, as if you were wearing someone else's shoes."
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"I think I have something tonight that's not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes."
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"Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house."
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"If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat"
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"There is never too much care when choosing shoes. Many women consider themselves important but the real evidence of that is on their legs."
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"When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten; when the belt fits, the belly is forgotten; when the heart is right, "for" and "against" are forgotten. There is no change in what is inside, no following what is outside, when the adjustment to events is comfortable. One begins with what is comfortable and never experiences what is uncomfortable, when one knows the comfort of forgetting what is comfortable."
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"I don't take myself seriously any more. Sometimes I just garden in my knickers and platform shoes."
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"When I enter the studio, I leave my body at the door the way the Moslems leave their shoes when they enter the mosque, and I only allow my spirit to go in there and paint."
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"I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. So I said, "Got any shoes you’re not using?"
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"Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with."
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"For clothes, I like Dover Street Market and Acne. For vintage, I go to Mint just off Seven Dials. For shoes, it's Church's and Russell & Bromley."
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"I'm a bit obsessed with women that are so incredibly solid in their shoes that they don't care what other people think of them. I just think there's something so interesting about that kind of confidence."
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"I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue."
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"My mother always tells me, "Fear isn't from God," and I believe that. But sometimes, I wonder whether I'll be able step into the shoes that God has prepared for me."
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"The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word."
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"There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman."
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"I have 137 pairs of shoes and 200 pairs of jeans."
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"Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches."
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"You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes."
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