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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.

Gertrude Stein

This is the place of places and and it is here.
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Existence Place
The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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Artist Himself Locate Work World
From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Age Nature Progress Transition
It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Mistake Plain Talk
I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Intention Myself Understand Yourself
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
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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Depend Different Oneself See Time
The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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Continue Resume Way
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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Genius Time Work 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
One must dare to be happy.
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Dare Happiness Oneself
We are always the same age inside.
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Age Inside
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
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
I wish that I was where I am.
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Myself Place Position
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

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