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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

Gertrude Stein

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
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
A diary means yes indeed.
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Diary One Liner
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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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
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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You have to know what you want to get it.
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Aware Goal Yourself
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Death Lost War
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
Romance is everything.
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One Liner Romance
Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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Day Exception Kindness
Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Literature Pleasure Sentence Word
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Common Information Internet Lose Sense Yourself
Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Learning Marriage Oneself
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
It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Book Work Writing

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

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