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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!

Gertrude Stein

Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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Day Feeling Joy Life Miracle Morning Yourself
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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Couple Marriage Myself Oneself
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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Afraid Dangerous Lose Moral Willing Yourself
Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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Friendship Painting Reliable Writing
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Common Imitation Interest Nature Place
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Audience Necessary Warm Work Yourself
Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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Nature Reduce Science
You have to know what you want to get it.
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Aware Goal Yourself
It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Better Defeat Lose Winner
There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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Answer Philosophy
A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Appearance Complete Creation Generation Himself
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Better Different Old Oneself Pleasure
Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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Change Money Yourself
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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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Children Communism Fancy Happiness People
Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Action Equality Reaction

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