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Too few is as many as too many.

Gertrude Stein

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
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Myself Stranger Way Writing
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Better Different Old Oneself Pleasure
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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Attack Kind Man Resistance Way Winning Woman
As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Answer Philosophy Question
One must dare to be happy.
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Dare Happiness Oneself
It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Book Work Writing
Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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Nature Reduce Science
Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Discovery Essential Name Passion Poetry
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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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Mistake Plain Talk
The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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Beginning Believe Live Machine Natural Reality Reason Science Thinking
Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Audacity Life Love Share Skill
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Children Communism Fancy Happiness People
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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Death Hope Illusion Natural Ourselves
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Excitement Myself Sentence

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