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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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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
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Burning
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I've always remained totally myself, which is to say, without an idea... of what to do.
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Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.
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When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.
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If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.
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Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes.
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Without emotion there is no beauty
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I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read.
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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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Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.
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The best time to leave a party is when the party’s just beginning. There’s no drink that kills except the drink that you didn’t want to take, as the saying goes, and there’s no hour that kills except the hour you stayed after you wanted to go home.
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No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century.
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I like to indulge myself by sitting up late without having to do anything in the morning.
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For goodness sakes, beware of curls… It is a great art to do them so that the girls not only look modern - but do not suddenly look very vulgar.
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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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Style all who have it have have one thing: originality.
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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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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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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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