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If it isn't a passion, it isn't burning, it isn't on fire, you haven't lived.

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
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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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I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.
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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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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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Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'
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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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Why don't you have a room done up in every color green? This will take months, years, to collect, but it will be delightful-a melange of plants, green glass, green porcelains, and furniture covered in sad greens, gay greens, clear, faded, and poison greens?
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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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You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.
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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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Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.
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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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You've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning.
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Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
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There’s only one thing in life, and that’s the continual renewal of inspiration.
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Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.
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To be contented—that’s for the cows.
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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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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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