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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.

Gertrude Stein

Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Funny Happiness Money Shop
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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Civilization Darkness Ourselves Time
It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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Country Generosity Important 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
Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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Day Exception Kindness
Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Discovery Essential Name Passion Poetry
This joy you feel is life.
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Feeling Joy Life One Liner Yourself
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Excitement Myself Sentence
I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Poetry Words Writing
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
French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Appearance Choice Dance Yourself
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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Depression Doubt Father
If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Creation Deep Perspective Position Yourself
How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Desire Myself Thinking
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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History Perspective Repeat

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