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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

You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Appearance Choice Dance Yourself
We are always the same age inside.
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Age Inside
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Death Lost War
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
There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Insist Perspective Repeat
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
This joy you feel is life.
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Feeling Joy Life One Liner Yourself
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
Any time is the time to make a poem.
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Poem Time
Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Art Deep
There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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Attack Kind Man Resistance Way Winning Woman
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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Genius Time Work Yourself
I wish that I was where I am.
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Myself Place Position
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.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Death Hope Illusion Natural Ourselves
A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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Important Make Up Mindset Oneself Yourself
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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Extraordinary Family Forget Yourself

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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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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