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Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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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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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
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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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There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this is not essential and it ceases to be. I have no sense of difference in this respect because every human being comprises the combination form.
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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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We are always the same age inside.
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Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.
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In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.
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Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.
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War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on reality but invented, it is a dream made real, all the things that make a novel but not really life.
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