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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.
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Well money is not easy to describe. It is easy to lose but it cannot be lost, and no one can get really get used to it.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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