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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

Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Boast Listening Need Oneself
It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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Extraordinary Future Population Reality True
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Personality Value Worth
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Myself Stranger Way Writing
This 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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Believe Illusion Oneself Reality Seek Understand
You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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Extraordinary Inspirational Limitation Yourself
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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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Emotional Feeling Literature Sentence
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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Feeling Kind Live Old Silly Yourself
You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Appearance Choice Dance 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
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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Excitement Myself Sentence
Too few is as many as too many.
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Amount Gratitude One Liner Perspective Thankful
Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Art Deep
I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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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.

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