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You Have To Lead Your Life According To Your Ideas. Spend All Your Money And Live Life In Line With What You Are Fighting For. I Hate It When Rich People Try To Be Communists. I Think That’s Obscene.

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You Have To Lead

Karl Lagerfeld

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You Have To Lead Your Life According To Your Ideas. Spend All Your Money And Live Life In Line With What You Are Fighting For. I Hate It When Rich People Try To Be Communists. I Think That’s Obscene.

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