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I think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades.

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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
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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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The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.
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Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.
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What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.
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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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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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A good photograph was never what I was looking for. I like to have a point. I had to have a point or I didn't have a picture. This is what I've always found so fascinating about paparazzi pictures. They catch something unintended, on the wing... they get that thing. It's the revelation of personality.
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Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
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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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I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted.
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Where would fashion be without literature?
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When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.
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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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Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.
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Pleasure is everything.
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Style all who have it have have one thing: originality.
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My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.
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The best thing about London is Paris.
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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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A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk is without question the most fascinating entertainment there is.
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