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Salonnire Inspirational Quotes (698)

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Some people make it hard for me to believe in universal evolution.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on reality but invented, it is a dream made real, all the things that make a novel but not really life.
Gertrude Stein
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Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?
Madame de Stael
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Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
Gertrude Stein
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Canada is useful only to provide me with furs.
Madame de Pompadour
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I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.
Gertrude Stein
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
Gertrude Stein
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It is not enough to forgive one must forget.
Madame de Stael
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Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.
George Sand
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Want of perseverance is the great fault of women in everything--morals, attention to health, friendship, and so on. It cannot be too often repeated that women never reach the end of anything through want of perseverance.
Suzanne Curchod
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When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.
Gertrude Stein
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
Gertrude Stein
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
Gertrude Stein
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
Gertrude Stein
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The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.
George Sand
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Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women.
Delphine de Girardin
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Heavens! whatever possesses us, here below, that we mutually torment ourselves, sourly reproach our mutual faults, and mercilessly condemn all that is not cut according to our pattern?
George Sand
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The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.
Madame de Stael
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Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and peace and plenty, and that the lion will lie down with the lamb and everybody will believe anybody.
Gertrude Stein
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
Sophie Swetchine
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none but the estimable shall hear from me that I esteem them. The whole world is entitled to my courtesy, but greater tribute than that must be earned through virtuous acts.
Sophie von La Roche
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else too to me. No one of them that I know can want to know it and so I write for myself and strangers.
Gertrude Stein
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
Gertrude Stein
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Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
Sophie Swetchine
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