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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.

Gertrude Stein

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Art Classic Composition Creation
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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Close Firm Greatness Myself Notice Portrait Writing
You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Death Learning Yourself
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
It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Better Defeat Lose Winner
A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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Circle Deal Greatness Necessary Ourselves
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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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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Argument Believe Breathe Defend Help Myself
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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History Perspective Repeat
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Boredom Question Scare Worst
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
The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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Continue Resume Way
How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Definition Happiness Joy
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Acceptance Reason Refusal Time
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Believe Change Science Thinking
You have to know what you want to get it.
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Aware Goal Yourself

The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.

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