It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
GERTRUDE STEINThis 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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One must dare to be happy.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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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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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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