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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

Gertrude Stein

How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Desire Myself Thinking
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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Care Caution Conscious Errors Mistake Yourself
I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Intention Myself Understand Yourself
This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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Believe Illusion Oneself Reality Seek Understand
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
Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Funny Happiness Money Shop
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Better Different Old Oneself Pleasure
Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Boast Listening Need Oneself
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Excitement Myself Sentence
A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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Conscience Creation Generation Himself
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Believe Change Science Thinking
Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Assume Ourselves Position Woman
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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Extraordinary Future Population Reality True
If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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Better Ground Near Sight Walk Yourself
Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Answer Empty Oneself Question
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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Answer Myself Sense Sound Yourself

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