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 STEINI wish that I was where I am.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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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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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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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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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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