Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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 have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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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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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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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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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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