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Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.

Diana Vreeland

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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
Editor
Fashion Editor
Journalist
Socialite
Paris
France
D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
Girl
Without
Every
Arousing
Possibility
Emotion
Beauty
Within

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Don't look left nor right and never compete. Never. Watching the other guy is what kills all forms of energy.
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Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.
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I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead
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Every girl in the world should have geisha training
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Where Chanel came from in France is anyone’s guess. She said one thing one day and another thing the next. She was a peasant—and a genius. Peasants and geniuses are the only people who count and she was both.
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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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I've always had such wonderful opportunities, but I never made the effort, haven't put on the pressure. But I never took them.
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One thing I hold against Americans is that they have no flair for the rain. They seem unsettled by it it's against them: they take it as an assault, an inconvenience! But rain is so wonderfully cleansing, so refreshing, so calming...
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Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
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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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You know the greatest thing is passion, without it what have you got? I mean if you love someone you can love them as much as you can love them but if it isn’t a passion, it isn’t burning, it isn’t on fire, you haven’t lived.
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A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that’s one thing but a lie to make life more interesting—well, that’s entirely different.
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Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.
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I always say I hope to God I die in a town with a good tailor, a good shoemaker, and perhaps someone who's interested in a little quelque chose d'autre.
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I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself.
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There was a time when it was considered vulgar and unnecessary to pursue money, but today anyone who doesn't believe in money must be out of their minds!
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Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!
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The best thing about London is Paris.
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My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.
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