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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?

My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Elegance is refusal.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

It is always better to be slightly underdressed.

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.