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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.

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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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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Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.
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