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.
GERTRUDE STEINGenerally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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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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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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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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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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