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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

Gertrude Stein

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
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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Declare Myself Patience Patient
The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Art Classic Composition Creation
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
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
Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Assume Ourselves Position Woman
Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Discovery Essential Name Passion Poetry
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Acceptance Reason Refusal Time
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Myself Stranger Way Writing
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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Depend Different Oneself See Time
Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Change Money Place Pocket
It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Better Defeat Lose Winner
Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Funny Happiness Money Shop
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
Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Learning Marriage Oneself

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