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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement - in a word, with more renunciation than you care for - and so you flee the contagion.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.
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Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
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Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
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Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
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For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
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I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It's incredibly romantic.
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I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
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I knew the youthfulness of the sixties: Talitha and Paul Getty lying on a starlit terrace in Marrakesh, beautiful and damned, and a whole generation assembled as if for eternity where the curtain of the past seemed to lift before an extraordinary future.
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I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity... in important things, diversity... in all things, generosity.
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If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.
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Indeed many things which we shall not be able to discover either by the experiment of works or by the investigations of reason we shall deserve to be taught by importunate prayer, by the revelation of divine inspiration.
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It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.
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Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?
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Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
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