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This joy you feel is life.
Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this is not essential and it ceases to be. I have no sense of difference in this respect because every human being comprises the combination form.
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There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
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It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
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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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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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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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Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
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We are always the same age inside.
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Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.
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A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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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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Very likely education does not make very much difference.
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