You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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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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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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This joy you feel is life.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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