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“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
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“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
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“It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.”
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“A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”
― Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons From The World's Most Elegant Woman
― Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons From The World's Most Elegant Woman
“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ”
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“Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”
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“In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.”
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“You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”
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“Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”
― Believing in Ourselves: The Wisdom of Women
― Believing in Ourselves: The Wisdom of Women
“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”
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“I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.”
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“Fashion changes, but style endures.”
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“If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.”
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“My life didn't please me, so I created my life.”
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“A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future.”
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“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”
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“Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed.”
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“There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.”
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“I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.”
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“As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!”
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“I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.”
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“Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.”
― Chanel
― Chanel
“You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.”
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“The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.”
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“Elegance is refusal.”
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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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“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.”
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“Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!”
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“I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.”
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“A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.”
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