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Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.

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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
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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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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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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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