This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
GERTRUDE STEINEvery day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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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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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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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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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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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 I wish I were able to say what I think.
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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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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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The 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.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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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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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.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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