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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

Gertrude Stein

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
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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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Common Imitation Interest Nature Place
Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Different Generation Sight
Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Assume Ourselves Position Woman
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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Declare Myself Patience Patient
In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Personality Value Worth
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
I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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Couple Marriage Myself 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
I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Myself Nature Sight View
From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Age Nature Progress Transition
This is the place of places and and it is here.
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Existence Place
The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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Feeling Frame Hope Live Myself Paint
How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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Desire Myself Thinking
Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Learning Marriage Oneself

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

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