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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

Gertrude Stein

I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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Answer Myself Sense Sound Yourself
It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Better Defeat Lose Winner
In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Day Evening Feeling Meaning Morning
French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Book Work Writing
Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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Death Myself Way
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
A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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Artist Happiness Himself Sorrow Tragedy
You attract what you need like a lover.
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Attraction Lover Need Yourself
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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History Perspective Repeat
I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Poetry Words Writing
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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Care Caution Conscious Errors Mistake Yourself
Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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Beautiful Day Important Impose Interest
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Better Different Old Oneself Pleasure
I am I because my little dog knows me.
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Animal Dog Existence Myself
There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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Attack Kind Man Resistance Way Winning Woman

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

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