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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

Gertrude Stein

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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Declare Myself Patience Patient
Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Change Money Place Pocket
I am I because my little dog knows me.
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Animal Dog Existence Myself
From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Age Nature Progress Transition
Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Listening Myself Self Love
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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Depression Doubt Father
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
As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Answer Philosophy Question
It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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Country Generosity Important Yourself
Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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Beautiful Day Important Impose Interest
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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Civilization Darkness Ourselves Time
Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Enough Honesty Myself Selfish Virtue
If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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Communication Goodness Kiss Miracle Perfection Performance Word Writing
I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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Couple Marriage Myself Oneself
We are always the same age inside.
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Age Inside
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.
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Believe Illusion Oneself Reality Seek Understand

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