A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
GERTRUDE STEINYou are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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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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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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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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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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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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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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