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There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing.
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When you get there, there isn't any there there.
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Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
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One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
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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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I manage to think twice about everything / Why will they like me as they do / Or not as they do / Why will they praise me as they do / Or praise me not not as they do.
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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
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A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
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