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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

Gertrude Stein

Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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Day Exception Kindness
I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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Achievement Complicate Myself Reality Scheme Simplicity Yourself
As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Answer Philosophy Question
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
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
It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Book Work Writing
It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Better Defeat Lose Winner
A diary means yes indeed.
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Diary One Liner
Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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Death Myself Way
How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Desire Myself Thinking
This is the place of places and and it is here.
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Existence Place
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Acceptance Reason Refusal Time
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Excitement Myself Sentence
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Myself Stranger Way Writing
Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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Beautiful Day Important Impose Interest
I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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Answer Myself Sense Sound Yourself

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