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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.

Gertrude Stein

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Better Different Old Oneself Pleasure
A diary means yes indeed.
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Diary One Liner
You attract what you need like a lover.
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Attraction Lover Need Yourself
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
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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Care Caution Conscious Errors Mistake Yourself
How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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Preference Question Yourself
Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Enough Honesty Myself Selfish Virtue
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Boredom Question Scare Worst
The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Difference Forget Myself Time
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
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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Death Hope Illusion Natural Ourselves
Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Discovery Essential Name Passion Poetry
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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We are always the same age inside.
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Age Inside
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
Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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Existence Reading Value Worth Writing

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