A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
GERTRUDE STEINI could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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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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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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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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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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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.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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