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"Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place."
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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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"The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language."
"The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature."
"Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means."
"The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements."
"Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being."
"Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure."
"Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place."
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