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Nothing has happened today except kindness.

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
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Children Communism Fancy Happiness People
You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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Feeling Kind Live Old Silly Yourself
It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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Attraction Evitable Finding Greatness Lover Need Yourself
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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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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Continue Resume Way
There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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Answer Philosophy
Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Action Equality Reaction
A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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Important Make Up Mindset Oneself Yourself
This joy you feel is life.
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Feeling Joy Life One Liner 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
It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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Extraordinary Future Population Reality True
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
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
You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Death Learning Yourself
You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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Afraid Dangerous Lose Moral Willing Yourself

Nothing has happened today except kindness.

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