Coco Chanel Quotes

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A dress made right should allow one to walk, to dance, even to ride horseback.

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Of Dior's New Look:
Clothes by a man who doesn't know women, never had one, and dreams of being one!

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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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Traveling is so complicated. There are so many people everywhere. I make my best journeys on my couch.

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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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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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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 best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.

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Youth is something very new: Twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

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In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.

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I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.

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If I can only get out into the fresh air I'll always revive. These days I'm worn out and pasty-faced but give me a day in the air and I'll be like new.

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Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.

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