It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
GERTRUDE STEINConsidering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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Romance is everything.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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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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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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