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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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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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Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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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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And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.
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In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
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An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business.
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I had a family. They can be a nuisance in identity but there is no doubt no shadow of doubt that that identity the family identity we can do without.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much.
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In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.
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There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.
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To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.
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It is very easy to love alone.
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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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One thing is certain the only thing that makes you younger or older is that nothing can happen that is different from what you expected and when that happens and it mostly does happen everything is different from what you expected then there is no difference between being younger or older.
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We are always the same age inside.
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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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Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where it is.
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