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Passion is passion. It's a sort of madness and possession of what you do or what you think. This is the difference of life: passion and commerce, which most of the people know as P.C. But people have just got C now instead of P.
Manolo Blahnik
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Manolo Blahnik
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: November 27
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