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Karl Lagerfeld

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.

Karl Lagerfeld

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Karl Lagerfeld is saying that he values the present and maybe some of what’s ahead, but he loses interest in the past once he understands it personally. He finds the past intriguing only when it belongs to strangers, because knowing the details removes its appeal for him.

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