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 STEINThere are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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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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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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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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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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