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Age
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Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.
-Coco Chanel
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Creativity
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Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
-Coco Chanel
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Fashion
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Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
-Coco Chanel
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Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
-Coco Chanel
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Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.
-Coco Chanel
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Dress shabbily, they notice the dress. Dress impeccably, they notice the woman.
-Coco Chanel
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Friends
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My friends, there are no friends.
-Coco Chanel
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Identity
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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
-Coco Chanel
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In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
-Coco Chanel
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Innovation
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Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.
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Mankind, Man
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Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: One must not hide that! Then someone tells you: The shoulder is on the back. I've never seen women with shoulders on their backs.
-Coco Chanel
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Men & Women
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I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.
-Coco Chanel
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Money
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There are people who have money and people who are rich.
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Style
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A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.
-Coco Chanel
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Time
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There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.
-Coco Chanel
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Wealth
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Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
-Coco Chanel
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Books by and about Coco Chanel