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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. .Coco Chanel
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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.Coco Chanel
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Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.Coco Chanel
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My life didn't please me, so I created my life.Coco Chanel
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There are people who have money and people who are rich.Coco Chanel
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A woman with good shoes i never ugly!Coco Chanel
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If you're sad, add more lipstick and attack!Coco Chanel
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Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.Coco Chanel
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Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.Coco Chanel
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There is a time for work, and a time for love. That leaves no other time.Coco Chanel
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The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.Coco Chanel
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A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.Coco Chanel
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A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.Coco Chanel
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Fashion changes, but style endures.Coco Chanel
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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.Coco Chanel
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You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.Coco Chanel
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Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.Coco Chanel
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Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.Coco Chanel
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As long as you know most men are like children, you know everything.Coco Chanel
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Only those with no memory insist on their originality.Coco Chanel
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If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.Coco Chanel
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Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.Coco Chanel
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No matter the age, a woman who is unloved is lost - unloved she might as well die.Coco Chanel
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A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.Coco Chanel
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Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.Coco Chanel
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Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.Coco Chanel
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Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed.Coco Chanel
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Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classicsCoco Chanel
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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.Coco Chanel
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In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.Coco Chanel
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Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.Coco Chanel
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Be classy. Anything but trashy.Coco Chanel
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A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future.Coco Chanel
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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.Coco Chanel
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I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.Coco Chanel
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Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!Coco Chanel
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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.Coco Chanel
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Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.Coco Chanel
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A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the shoulders, with the movement of the arms, the legs, and the waist.Coco Chanel
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Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off.Coco Chanel
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To be irreplaceable you have to be different.Coco Chanel
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Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.Coco Chanel
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A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashionCoco Chanel
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Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth, but to make them beautifuCoco Chanel
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Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.Coco Chanel
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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.Coco Chanel
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Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.Coco Chanel
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Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.Coco Chanel
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Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.Coco Chanel
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Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.Coco Chanel
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There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.Coco Chanel
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There is a time for work. And a time for love. That leaves no other time.Coco Chanel
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Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.Coco Chanel
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I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite which I would like.Coco Chanel
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In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.Coco Chanel
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I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.Coco Chanel
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Since everything is in our heads we better not lose them.Coco Chanel
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When I can no longer create anything I'll be done for.Coco Chanel
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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!Coco Chanel
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Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.Coco Chanel
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Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.Coco Chanel
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Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.Coco Chanel
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A woman has the age she deserves.Coco Chanel
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Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.Coco Chanel
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Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.Coco Chanel
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A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.Coco Chanel
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Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.Coco Chanel
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Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.Coco Chanel
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I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.Coco Chanel
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Fashion fades, only style remains the same.Coco Chanel
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As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!Coco Chanel
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I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.Coco Chanel
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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.Coco Chanel