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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

Gertrude Stein

there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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Excitement Fashion Logic Peace People
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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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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Circle Deal Greatness Necessary Ourselves
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Better Different Old Oneself Pleasure
You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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Afraid Dangerous Lose Moral Willing 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
Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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General Interesting Perspective Talk
Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Funny Happiness Money Shop
I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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Myself Rich Willing Work
There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Insist Perspective Repeat
The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Difference Forget Myself Time
You have to know what you want to get it.
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Aware Goal Yourself
From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Age Nature Progress Transition
Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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Nature Reduce Science
Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Art Deep

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