The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
GERTRUDE STEINIt 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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We are always the same age inside.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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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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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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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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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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This joy you feel is life.
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