I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
GERTRUDE STEINFrom the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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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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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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