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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

Gertrude Stein

What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Art Deep
It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Mistake Plain Talk
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
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Excitement Myself Sentence
There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Insist Perspective Repeat
I wish that I was where I am.
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Myself Place Position
You have to know what you want to get it.
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Aware Goal Yourself
As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Answer Philosophy Question
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
Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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General Interesting Perspective Talk
How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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Preference Question 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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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Discovery Essential Name Passion Poetry
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
French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

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