In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
GERTRUDE STEINthere 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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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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I 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.
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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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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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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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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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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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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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