I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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.
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This joy you feel is life.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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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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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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