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One must dare to be happy.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Gertruda Stein
Gertruda Staĭn
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When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.
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The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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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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If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.
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It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.
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Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.
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Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
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