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Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

Age, Elegance, Wisdom

Elegance is refusal.

Elegance, Simplicity, Style

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

Fashion, Style, Timelessness

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.

Beauty, Fashion, Women

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Art, Design, Fashion

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.

Fashion, Ideas, Life

Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

Humor, Life, Work

Great loves too must be endured.

Endurance, Love, Relationships

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

Death, Guilt, Life

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

Authenticity, Life, Struggle

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Happiness, Life, Self-Discovery

A woman has the age she deserves.

Life, Wisdom, Women

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

Life, Positivity, Youth

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.

Gender, Humor, Life

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Change, Life, Philosophy

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

Humor, Life, Lightness

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

Fashion, Style, Time

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

Caution, Danger, Wisdom

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Education, Knowledge, Wisdom

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

Courage, Honor, Life

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

Disposition, Fame, Virtue

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

Emotion, Love, Relationships

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Attachment, Happiness, Philosophy

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