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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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"Which outfits do you get the most compliments on when you are wearing them? What colors make you feel healthy, vibrant, and alive?"
"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."
"With right fashion, every female would be a flame."
"And once we reach the city, my stylist will dictate my look for the opening ceremonies tonight anyway. I just hope I get one who doesn't think nudity is the last word in fashion."
"Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again."
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"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."
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"The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements."
"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."
"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."
"Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being."
"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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