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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

Gertrude Stein

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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Civilization Darkness Ourselves Time
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Boredom Question Scare Worst
Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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General Interesting Perspective Talk
It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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Country Generosity Important Yourself
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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Depression Doubt Father
You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Death Learning Yourself
A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Emotional Feeling Literature Sentence
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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Feeling Kind Live Old Silly Yourself
The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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Feeling Frame Hope Live Myself Paint
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Death Lost War
A diary means yes indeed.
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Diary One Liner
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Eyes Himself Paint Writing
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
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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Couple Marriage Myself Oneself
Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Answer Empty Oneself Question

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