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Size and elaboration were often mistaken for importance.

Count Ayakura’s abstraction persisted. He believed that only a vulgar mentality was willing to ackno...

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For us to deem a work of architecture elegant, it is hence not enough that it look simple: we must f...

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Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beaut...

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Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who ha...

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Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.

Though Julian could be marvelously kind in difficult circumstances of all sorts, I sometimes got the...

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The noble buoyancy of her attitude, its suggestion of soaring grace, revealed the touch of poetry in...

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I have a different idea of elegance. I don't dress like a fop, it's true, but my moral grooming is i...

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The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas o...

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George PólyaMathematical Discovery on Understanding

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.

Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them ...

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The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see...

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If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.

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Salvador DalíThe Secret Life of Salvador Dali