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We are always the same age inside.

Gertrude Stein

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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Gertruda Stein
Gertruda Staĭn
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The idea of enemies is awful it makes one stop remembering eternity and the fear of death. That is what enemies are. Possessions are the same as enemies only less so, they too make one forget eternity and the fear of death.
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When you get there, there isn't any there there.
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There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.
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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.
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Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
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It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
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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.
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Perhaps I am not I even if my little dog knows me but anyway I like what I have and now it is today.
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A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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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.
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A FEATHER. A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.
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