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 STEINEvery day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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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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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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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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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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