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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

Gertrude Stein

If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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Better Ground Near Sight Walk Yourself
Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Gratitude Silence Thankful
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
Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Literature Pleasure Sentence Word
You attract what you need like a lover.
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Attraction Lover Need Yourself
How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Definition Happiness Joy
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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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Answer Philosophy Question
Any time is the time to make a poem.
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Poem Time
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
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
Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Art Deep
I wish that I was where I am.
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Myself Place Position
French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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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
It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Better Defeat Lose Winner

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

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