Coco Chanel Quotes

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• Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
• I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.
• There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
• As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
• Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
• Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
• How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
• Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
• Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is…
• Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
• Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
• It is always better to be slightly underdressed.
• There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!
• I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
• Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
• I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.
• Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.
• Great loves too must be endured.
• Elegance is refusal.
• My friends, there are no friends.

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