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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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This joy you feel is life.
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When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.
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There is no beginning to an end / But there is a beginning and an end / To beginning.
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A saint is one to be for two when three and you make five and two and cover. A at most. Saint saint a saint.
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