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• Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition and with what eventually one of her mentors described as an almost alarming speed; she was like a dancer, he said, out in the cosmos springing weightlessly from star to star. Drones, merely brilliant, crawled along behind with laborious proofs that supported her assertions.

  Deborah Eisenberg

  Stars, Dancer, Intuition

  Deborah Eisenberg (2016). “Twilight of the Superheroes”, p.36, Pan Macmillan

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• I don't like women who follow fashion in the sense of becoming victims of it. I like women who have elegance, who have allure, who use fashion, rather than the other way around.

  Giorgio Armani

  Fashion, Use, Way

  Entrevista con Daniela Morera, www.interviewmagazine.com. 21 de noviembre de 2008.

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• I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Prejudice, Kind

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.97

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• We have a direct contact with our clothes; they're like a little house. You have to feel good and at home in what you wear and. I think that's elegance. Chanel said something like: "When a woman is badly dressed, one sees the dress, and when she is well dressed, one sees the woman." That's what I'm talking about.

  Christophe Lemaitre

  Inicio, Pensar, Hablar

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the regulations of life. A moral taste is not of force to turn vice into virtue; but it recommends virtue with something like the blandishments of pleasure, and it infinitely abates the evils of vice.

  Edmund Burke

  Mean, Evil, Vices

  Edmund Burke (1841). “Works”, p.484

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• La elegancia es tan física, como cualidad moral que no tiene nada en común con la vestimenta. Se puede ver una campesina más elegante que una mujer llamada elegante.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Calidad, Moral, Común

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• A man who relentlessly perspires
  to be excellent evidently inspires
  many with his intelligence and
  elegance.

  Anuj

  Men, Inspire, Excellent

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• Contar historias y tener un estilo elegante no siempre van de la mano.

  Donna Tartt

  Hands, Style, Storytelling

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• Casual elegance is all about the mix.

  Charlotte Moss

  Casual

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• You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

  Agatha Christie

  Imagination, Too Much, Masters

  Agatha Christie (2009). “The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.130, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The famous Florentine elegance, which attracts tourists to the shops on Via Tornabuoni and Via della Vigna Nuova, is characterized by austerity of line, simplicity, economy of effect.

  Mary McCarthy

  Simplicity, Tourists, Lines

  Mary McCarthy (1959). “The stones of Florence”

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• La elegancia en los objetos es un derecho de todos, y no debería costar más que la fealdad.

  Paola Antonelli

  Cost, Objects, Ugliness

  "The Shape of Things to Come" by Ian Parker, www.newyorker.com. February 23 & March 2, 2015.

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• A todos los grandes artistas del mundo les va creciendo poco a poco una cualidad de feminidad, gracia, elegancia, exquisitez. Un cierto sabor de suavidad, relajación, calma y tranquilidad les rodea. Ya no son febriles. Lo que estoy enseñando aquí es realmente convertir el mundo entero en femenino.

  Rajneesh

  Enseñanza, Artista, Gracia

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• Los hombres esperan demasiado, hacen demasiado poco,
  anteponen el artilugio al logro,
  Carecen de la habilidad de la mente interior
  Para modelar la dignidad con formas de aire.
  Lujo, sí, pero no elegancia.

  Allen Tate

  Fashion, Men, Skills

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.86, Macmillan

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• My definition of elegance is the achievement of a given functionality with a minimum of mechanism and a maximum of clarity.

  Fernando J. Corbato

  Achievement, Definitions, Clarity

  "Computers, Ethics & Social Values". Book edited by Deborah G. Johnson and Helen Fay Nissenbaum, 1995.

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• Complexity is not good. People don't understand the elegance of simplicity.

  Gordon Willis

  People, Simplicity, Complexity

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• Me gusta la elegancia. Me gusta el art nouveau; una línea o curva estirada. Estas cosas están muy presentes en mi trabajo.

  H. R. Giger

  Arte, Curvas, Líneas

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• French elegance lies in the balance of romance and restraint.

  Sarah Turnbull

  Lying, Romance, Balance

  Sarah Turnbull (2011). “Almost French”, p.21, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• If the eye is constantly greeted by harmonious objects, having elegance of form and color, a standard of taste naturally grows up.

  John Dewey

  Growing Up, Eye, Color

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• Uber is efficiency with elegance on top. That’s why I buy an iPhone instead of an average cell phone, why I go to a nice restaurant and pay a little bit more. It’s for the experience.

  Travis Kalanick

  Nice, Iphone, Phones

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• I think you are born chic. You cannot be chic. It is something you cannot learn.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Learning, Thinking, Chic

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• El cenit de la elegancia en el armario de cualquier mujer es el vestidito negro, cuya fuerza sugiere garbo y refinamiento.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Negro, Vestidos, Zenith

  "On The Little Black Dress" por Andre Leon Talley, www.huffingtonpost.com. 11 de abril de 2013.

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• La buena educación consiste en no tener una marca particular de ninguna profesión, sino una elegancia general de modales.

  Samuel Johnson

  Manners, Mark, Breeding

  Samuel Johnson (1807). "Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson", p.105.

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• [Jay] Gould sets up an artificial wall between the two worldviews that doesn't exist in my life. Because I do believe in God's creative power in having brought it all into being in the first place, I find that studying the natural world is an opportunity to observe the majesty, the elegance, the intricacy of God's creation.

  Richard Dawkins

  Wall, Believe, Opportunity

  Fuente: inters.org

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• El perfume pone el toque final a la elegancia, un detalle que subraya sutilmente el look, un extra invisible que completa la personalidad de un hombre y una mujer. Sin él, falta algo.

  Gianni Versace

  Hombres, Personalidad, Desaparecidos

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