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

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
I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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Answer Myself Sense Sound Yourself
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
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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History Lesson Repeat Teaching
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Common Information Internet Lose Sense Yourself
If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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Better Ground Near Sight Walk Yourself
Too few is as many as too many.
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Amount Gratitude One Liner Perspective Thankful
Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Audacity Life Love Share Skill
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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Beginning Believe Live Machine Natural Reality Reason Science Thinking
It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Better Defeat Lose Winner
French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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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
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Boredom Question Scare Worst
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Eyes Himself Paint Writing
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
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

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