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Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
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 reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.
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I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that he knows, that is what destroys creation. That is what makes school.
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If you can do it then why do it?
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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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