"We must never confuse elegance with snobbery."

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Source : Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.21, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Yves Saint Laurent

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“Itâ€™s amazing how quickly something gets written. Now, when it comes, it can be on a bus, or in a store. Iâ€™ve stopped in Macyâ€™s and written on a dry-goods counter and then suddenly had a whole piece of writing for myself that was accomplished, where earlier in my life I felt I had to spend a week in a house somewhere in the country in order to get that. Conditions change.”
“You are what you eat." Nothing else. Never. If you are nourished with cow's milk and later with herbs, you'll become someone whose whole life is good only for being exploited by others.”
“Live on berries in a hollowed-out comet lit by artificial suns long enough, and you start to have delusions about achieving enlightenment.”

Source : Hannu Rajaniemi (2012). “The Fractal Prince”, p.17, Hachette UK
“The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not.”

Source : Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. January 17, 2003.
“The main purpose of a significance test is to inhibit the natural enthusiasm of the investigator.”
“On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step”

Source : Nadeem Aslam (2008). “The Wasted Vigil”, Faber & Faber
“I am much afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which means are not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must be corrupt.”
“I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.”

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