This joy you feel is life.
GERTRUDE STEINWhy should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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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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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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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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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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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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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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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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