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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

What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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Excitement Fashion Logic Peace People
It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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Attraction Evitable Finding Greatness Lover Need Yourself
Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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Change Money Yourself
You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Death Learning Yourself
A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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Artist Happiness Himself Sorrow Tragedy
I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Myself Nature Sight View
If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Creation Deep Perspective Position Yourself
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 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
Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Learning Marriage Oneself
From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Age Nature Progress Transition
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
We are always the same age inside.
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Age Inside
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Common Imitation Interest Nature Place
Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Action Equality Reaction

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.

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