This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
GERTRUDE STEINFor a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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This joy you feel is life.
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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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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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We are always the same age inside.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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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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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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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.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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