Coco Chanel Quotes

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Coco Chanel

Profession : Designer

Birth : August 19, 1883

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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My friends, there are no friends.

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As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

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Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

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Elegance is refusal.

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Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

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

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Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

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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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Great loves too must be endured.

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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.

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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.

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Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

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Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

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Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

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As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

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