Gertrude Stein Quotes

It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Better Defeat Lose Winner
Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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Friendship Painting Reliable Writing
A diary means yes indeed.
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Diary One Liner
I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Poetry Words Writing
It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Defeat Lose Motivational Win
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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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.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Literature Pleasure Sentence Word
How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Definition Happiness Joy
As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Answer Philosophy Question
America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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Born Country Home Myself
Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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Answer Empty Oneself Question
Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Enough Honesty Myself Selfish Virtue
Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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Belief Myself Success Trust Try Unknown Work
Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Audacity Life Love Share Skill
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
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
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
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
From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Age Nature Progress Transition
One must dare to be happy.
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Dare Happiness Oneself
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Common Imitation Interest Nature Place
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Death Lost War
It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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Attraction Evitable Finding Greatness Lover Need Yourself
Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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Civilization Darkness Ourselves Time

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