Coco Chanel

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Wisdom
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Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Men
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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 to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Alone
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Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Death
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Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Work
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There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Business
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Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Future
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Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Men
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Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Age
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A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Women
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A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Women
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Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Time
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Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Architecture
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Great loves too must be endured.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Great
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I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Women
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A woman has the age she deserves.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Age
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Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Failure
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Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Truth
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I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Men
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Fashion fades, only style remains the same.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Design
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The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Courage
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There are people who have money and people who are rich.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Money
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As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Men
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In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
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Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
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Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
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My friends, there are no friends.
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Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
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It is always better to be slightly underdressed.
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Elegance is refusal.
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Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.
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I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.
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Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
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I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
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There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!
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Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
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Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
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Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
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As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
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Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
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Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.
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Collection: Beautiful
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Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Daughter
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It's not the appearance, it's the essence. It's not the money, it's the education. It's not the clothes, it's the class.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Essence
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To achieve great things, we must first dream.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Dream
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Fashion comes and goes but style lasts forever
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Fashion
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Strength is built by one's failures, not by one's successes.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Built
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To be irreplaceable, you have to be different.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Different
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The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Things In Life
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You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Beauty
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I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.
- Coco Chanel
Collection: Being Yourself