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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

Gertrude Stein

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
We are always the same age inside.
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Age Inside
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Excitement Myself Sentence
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
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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History Perspective Repeat
As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Answer Philosophy Question
Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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General Interesting Perspective Talk
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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History Lesson Repeat Teaching
A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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Circle Deal Greatness Necessary Ourselves
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
The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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Artist Himself Locate Work World
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
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
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Eyes Himself Paint Writing
Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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Argument Believe Breathe Defend Help Myself
This is the place of places and and it is here.
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Existence Place

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