#luxury

I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#game #luxury #modesty #vulgarity #love

Era ella quien se abría como una sandía madura, roja, jugosa, tibia, ella quien sudaba esa fragancia penetrante de mariscos, ella quien lo mordía, lo arañaba, lo chupaba, gemía, agonizaba de sofoco y de placer. Era en su carne compasiva donde se sumergía hasta perder el aliento y volverse esponja, medusa, estrella de altamar. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#love #luxury #sex #love

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us. ↗

— Josiah Warren

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What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity. ↗

— Anthony Crosland

#luxury #necessity #next #sees

I love everything from old-school cars to whatever the latest muscle or luxury vehicles are. ↗

— Ludacris

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do. ↗

— Leontyne Price

#giving #luxury #successful #time #ultimate

It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't afford to play — the product of idleness and immoral ease. In the grip of that feeling it isn't life we pursue, but the point and purpose of life — its facility, its use. ↗

— William H. Gass

#indolence #luxury #purpose #utility #life

Morality is a private and costly luxury. ↗

— Henry Adams

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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. ↗

— Edward Abbey

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I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

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