A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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A diary means yes indeed.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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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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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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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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One must dare to be happy.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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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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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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