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I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

Diana Vreeland

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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
Editor
Fashion Editor
Journalist
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Paris
France
D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
Vanity
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Narcissism
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God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no coal, no diamonds, no gold, no natural resources — nothing! Nothing comes from the island that you can sustain a civilization on. What God gave the Japanese was a sense of style—maintained through the centuries through hard work and the disciplines of ambition.
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I'm for everybody. There are no set rules. But if one's not a joiner. To hell with all of them!
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The only real elegance is in the mind if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
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Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born.
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If it isn't a passion, it isn't burning, it isn't on fire, you haven't lived.
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There’s only one thing in life, and that’s the continual renewal of inspiration.
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Beauty has nothing to do with possession. If possession and beauty must go together, then we are lost souls. A beautiful flower is not to be possessed, it's there to be beheld. … It's there for your pleasure.
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Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.
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Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.
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Pleasure is everything.
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Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.
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I was always sort of a loner, I suppose. I always had to think out everything for myself... I suppose that is what you call a loner.
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Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
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Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'
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Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.
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This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it.
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Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can’t think all the time.
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Don't you loathe the word workaholic? It has nothing to do with an important thing, that you and your secretary are at the office until 6:30. But that's life, kiddo. 24-hour work doesn't go on in America. 24-hour work is what Italy and Holland did after the war. The lights never went out!
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When fashion turns over it brings in little tiny creaks and cracks. This is the fascination and that is where you have to watch every step.
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When I arrived in America, I had these very dark red nails which some people objected to, but then some people object to absolutely everything.
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