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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else too to me. No one of them that I know can want to know it and so I write for myself and strangers.
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Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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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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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
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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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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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