The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
GERTRUDE STEINLet me listen to me and not to them.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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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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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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This joy you feel is life.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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One must dare to be happy.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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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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