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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.

Gertrude Stein

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
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
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
Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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Day Feeling Joy Life Miracle Morning Yourself
The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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Continue Resume Way
I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Myself Nature Sight View
Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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Friendship Painting Reliable Writing
Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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Belief Myself Success Trust Try Unknown Work
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
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Boredom Question Scare Worst
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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History Perspective Repeat
How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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Preference Question Yourself
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Excitement Myself Sentence
I wish that I was where I am.
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Myself Place Position
How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Definition Happiness Joy
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

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