A Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

The past is the luxury of proprietors.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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Luxury Past

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Jean-Paul Sartre
French - Novelist
June 21, 1905 - April 15, 1980

No logo, and you don't advertise for anyone. I don't believe in imposed luxury. I believe in built luxury. Something you refine with your own taste. Mass luxury is not my luxury.

Lapo Elkann

Most brands that are called luxury brands today are not true luxury brands. The globalization of fashion and luxury means you now find the same luxury brands in every city. The stores look the same, the products are the same. It is still a very good quality product but it is now readily available to everyone. It's a kind of mass luxury.

Monita Rajpal

Luxury is obviously the direction that interests me the most, but there is a lot of confusion between luxury and exhibitionism. For me, the concept of luxury is more traditional, more exclusive, more sophisticated than luxury for the masses.

Giorgio Armani

It is a luxury to learn; but the luxury of learning is not to be compared with the luxury of teaching.

Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

I am not trying to say that I am poor and that I don't like beautiful things. But I don't like luxury for luxury sake or in the sense of showing off luxury.

Vladimir Potanin

The risk of any great luxury brand that has its history in the past is that it can get dusty.

Maureen Chiquet

[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government.

Thomas Jefferson

The nation is trying to make Chile a country of proprietors, not of proletarians.

Augusto Pinochet

In a world where lifelong employment in the same job is a thing of the past, creativity is not a luxury. It is essential for personal security and fulfillment.