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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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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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Pleasure is everything.
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I think your imagination is your reality
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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 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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You gotta have style. It helps you get down the stairs. It helps you get up in the morning. It's a way of life. Without it, you're nobody.
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I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.
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Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.
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Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'
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Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.
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Don't you loathe the word workaholic? It has nothing to do with an important thing, that you and your secretary are at the office until 6:30. But that's life, kiddo. 24-hour work doesn't go on in America. 24-hour work is what Italy and Holland did after the war. The lights never went out!
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Every girl in the world should have geisha training
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Without emotion there is no beauty
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Balenciaga often said that women did not have to be perfect or beautiful to wear his clothes. When they wore his clothes, they became beautiful.
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Most people haven't got a point of view they need to have it given to them––and what's more, they expect it from you.
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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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All people are meant to be creative in a certain way. What way? Perhaps I was cut out to be a wonderful housewife, with a marvelous sense of cooking, being with my friends, running a perfect house. But I am not ambitious towards anything.
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Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.
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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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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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