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

Gertrude Stein

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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Care Caution Conscious Errors Mistake 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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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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History Lesson Repeat Teaching
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
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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Civilization Darkness Ourselves Time
Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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Nature Reduce Science
It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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Death Hope Illusion Natural Ourselves
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
Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Assume Ourselves Position Woman
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
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Myself Stranger Way Writing
In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Day Evening Feeling Meaning Morning
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
America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Born Country Home Myself
I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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Achievement Complicate Myself Reality Scheme Simplicity Yourself
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

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