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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.

Gertrude Stein

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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Belief Myself Success Trust Try Unknown Work
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Better Different Old Oneself Pleasure
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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Extraordinary Future Population Reality True
America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Born Country Home Myself
Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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Friendship Painting Reliable Writing
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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Death Hope Illusion Natural Ourselves
A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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Conscience Creation Generation Himself
Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Boast Listening Need Oneself
There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Beside Knowledge Literature
Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Listening Myself Self Love
I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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Myself Rich Willing Work
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
Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Funny Happiness Money Shop
Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Art Nation One Liner
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

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