The French Woman by Garance Doré

The French Woman by Garance Doré

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The French Woman by Garance Doré
The French Woman by Garance Doré
A Never Ending Story

A Never Ending Story

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The French Woman by Garance Doré
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A Never Ending Story
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I believe that inside of us nests a free and quiet soul. In our purest state, we live out of our intuition, we follow our senses.
There is an ethereal, serene, boundless quality to our existence…
And there is creativity in everything we do.

But we live in the world. We have bustling lives and we have families and we have to make money and we have to be citizens and, and, and…

There is a whole world outside of us that is literally an explosion of everything.

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I love this world. As much as there are times where I think that living outside of it would be ideal, and I dream of a little farm in Scotland with goats and chickens and aromatic herbs, I also love walking into the streets in London with my nose up, making a stop at Selfridges and trying on the latest The Row boots, those that are so ridiculously expensive—but that, I love to think, would also improve my life in every way.

The thing with choosing to live in this world is that if you let it, it might crush you with its needs, its injunc…

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