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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.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.
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Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself
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