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A diary means yes indeed.

Gertrude Stein

A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Emotional Feeling Literature Sentence
Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Action Equality Reaction
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Assume Ourselves Position Woman
Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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Death Myself Way
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
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Common Imitation Interest Nature Place
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Acceptance Reason Refusal Time
A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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Important Make Up Mindset Oneself Yourself
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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Attack Kind Man Resistance Way Winning Woman
I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Myself Nature Sight View
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
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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Depression Doubt Father
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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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

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