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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.

Gertrude Stein

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
Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Boast Listening Need Oneself
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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Excitement Fashion Logic Peace People
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
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
There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Insist Perspective Repeat
This joy you feel is life.
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Feeling Joy Life One Liner Yourself
In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Personality Value Worth
This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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Believe Illusion Oneself Reality Seek Understand
It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Book Work Writing
Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Audacity Life Love Share Skill
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
French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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Myself Place Position
I am I because my little dog knows me.
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Animal Dog Existence Myself
Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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General Interesting Perspective Talk

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