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Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.

— Christian Dior

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A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.

It is unforgivable to do what one doesn't love especially if one succeeds.

The rich live the same all over the world.

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

Democritus Freeman (1948)

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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