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 understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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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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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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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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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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We are always the same age inside.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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