I’m open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.
KARL LAGERFELDAs a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything – not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion.
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Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.
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I’m never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that’s the secret to doing things well.
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I like the idea of craziness with discipline.
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I don’t like sleeping with people I really love. I don’t want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.
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I think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.
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I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it.
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Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.
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I don’t want to do anything over again, ever again. I want only to do what I haven’t done. There’s no “again.” There’s only the future. I hate the past – especially my own past.
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Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman’s jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.
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When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.
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The flat shoe makes the woman equal of men. When they have high [shoes], they play a part like a geisha, and they can’t be expected to be taken that seriously.
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Change is the healthiest way to survive.
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When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.
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Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans – it’s up to you.
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