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Always it comes very slowly the completed understanding of it, the repeating each one does to tell it the whole history of the being in each one, always now I hear it. Always now slowly I understand it.
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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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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You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.
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