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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
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
The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Difference Forget Myself Time
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
How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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Preference Question Yourself
I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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Myself Rich Willing Work
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
You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Appearance Choice Dance 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
In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Day Evening Feeling Meaning Morning
Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Boast Listening Need Oneself
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Different Generation Sight
Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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Death Myself Way
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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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Personality Value Worth
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
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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History Lesson Repeat Teaching
Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Answer Empty Oneself Question
there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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Excitement Fashion Logic Peace People
It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Mistake Plain Talk
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
A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Appearance Complete Creation Generation Himself
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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Circle Deal Greatness Necessary Ourselves
The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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Artist Himself Locate Work World
This is the place of places and and it is here.
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Existence Place
Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Audacity Life Love Share Skill

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