A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
GERTRUDE STEINThe only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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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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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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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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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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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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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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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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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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We are always the same age inside.
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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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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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