I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
GERTRUDE STEINThe 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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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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Romance is everything.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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