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Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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This joy you feel is life.
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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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You have to know what you want. And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back, because perhaps that is instinctively where you want to be. And if you hold back and try to be always where you have been before, you will go dry.
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Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
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