Gertrude Stein on oneself
Gertrude Stein118 quotes“I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.”
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein As there was never any question there was never any answer.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein One must dare to be happy.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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