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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

How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Desire Myself Thinking
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Acceptance Reason Refusal Time
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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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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Declare Myself Patience Patient
I wish that I was where I am.
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Myself Place Position
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Boredom Question Scare Worst
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Death Lost War
A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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Artist Happiness Himself Sorrow Tragedy
Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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Belief Myself Success Trust Try Unknown Work
The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Art Classic Composition Creation
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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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
Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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General Interesting Perspective Talk
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
One must dare to be happy.
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Dare Happiness Oneself

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