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Salonnire Inspirational Quotes (698)

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That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
Madame de Stael
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Those can most easily dispense with society who are the most calculated to adorn it they only are dependent on it who possess no mental resources, for though they bring nothing to the general mart, like beggars, they are too poor to stay at home.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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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.
Gertrude Stein
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An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business.
Gertrude Stein
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Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where it is.
Gertrude Stein
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I hear nothings, I speak nothings, I take interest in nothing and from nothing to nothing I travel gently down the dull way which leads to becoming nothing.
Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand
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To be married is to be neither alone nor together.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing.
Gertrude Stein
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
Gertrude Stein
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I should rejoice if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are to myself.
Margaret of Valois
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I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.
Sophie Swetchine
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Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.
George Sand
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Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
George Sand
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More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.
Gertrude Stein
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
Gertrude Stein
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A Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give a silent image of that infinite mystery which the soul for ever feels, and never comprehends.
Madame de Stael
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[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!
George Sand
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A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts.
Gertrude Stein
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Nothing recalls the past like music.
Madame de Stael
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I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
Gertrude Stein
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Fiction is a potent agent for good--in the hands of the good.
Suzanne Curchod
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Experience is always a trustworthy guide it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.
George Sand
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A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
Gertrude Stein
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