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"The New is not a fashion, it is a value."
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"Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter."
"Which outfits do you get the most compliments on when you are wearing them? What colors make you feel healthy, vibrant, and alive?"
"The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it."
"That civet-jasmine blend you're wearing tonight absolutely clashes with the third-level formal style of your dress, you know."
"People wouldn't know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the hands of so many seamstresses working on them."
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"Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire."
"I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun."
"Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive."
"The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!"
"The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man."
"There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it."
"The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning."
"Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it."
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