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You ask if they were happy. This is not a characteristic of a European. To be… — Coco Chanel

You ask if they were happy. This is not a characteristic of a European. To be contented-that's for the cows.

Coco Chanel
1990
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HappinessEuropeans
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1990
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Coco Chanel
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Coco Chanel. Quoted in Coco Chanel: A Biography, written by Axel Madsen. Bloomsbury Publishing, 1990, ch. 35.

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