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.
GERTRUDE STEINNobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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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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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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One must dare to be happy.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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