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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

Gertrude Stein

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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Business Important Yourself
This joy you feel is life.
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Feeling Joy Life One Liner Yourself
Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Art Deep
It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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Country Generosity Important Yourself
Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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Eat Interest Yourself
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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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
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Boredom Question Scare Worst
You have to know what you want to get it.
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Aware Goal Yourself
Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Literature Pleasure Sentence Word
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 always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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Close Firm Greatness Myself Notice Portrait Writing
The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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Artist Himself Locate Work World
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
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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Afraid Dangerous Lose Moral Willing Yourself
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

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

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