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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

Gertrude Stein

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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Civilization Darkness Ourselves Time
Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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Gratitude Silence Thankful
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
French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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Continue Resume Way
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
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
I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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Achievement Complicate Myself Reality Scheme Simplicity Yourself
Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Existence Reading Value Worth Writing
The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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Beginning Believe Live Machine Natural Reality Reason Science Thinking
Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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Friendship Painting Reliable Writing
A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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Conscience Creation Generation Himself
But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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Campus Career Family Men Myself Problem Stand Talk Young
You attract what you need like a lover.
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Attraction Lover Need Yourself
In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Day Evening Feeling Meaning Morning
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Better Different Old Oneself Pleasure

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