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Gertrude 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.
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Believe Illusion Oneself Reality Seek Understand
Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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Change Money Yourself
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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History Lesson Repeat Teaching
A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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Important Make Up Mindset Oneself Yourself
If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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Communication Goodness Kiss Miracle Perfection Performance Word Writing
Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Eat Interest Yourself
It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Defeat Lose Motivational Win
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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Achievement Complicate Myself Reality Scheme Simplicity Yourself
I wish that I was where I am.
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Myself Place Position
Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Literature Pleasure Sentence Word
I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Poetry Words Writing
How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Definition Happiness Joy
The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Art Classic Composition Creation
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.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Existence Reading Value Worth Writing

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