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 STEINEach generation has something different at which they are all looking.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Romance is everything.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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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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