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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

Gertrude Stein

Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Existence Reading Value Worth Writing
You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Death Learning Yourself
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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Genius Time Work Yourself
A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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Conscience Creation Generation Himself
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
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Common Information Internet Lose Sense Yourself
Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Gratitude Silence Thankful
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Intention Myself Understand Yourself
Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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Friendship Painting Reliable Writing
From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Age Nature Progress Transition
We are always the same age inside.
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Age Inside
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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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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Argument Believe Breathe Defend Help Myself
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Eyes Himself Paint Writing
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

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