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It is very easy to love alone. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#alone #easy #to love #very

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#alone #beings #human #human beings #like

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#end #excuse #failure #itself #need

Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#common #common sense #day #everyone #gets

Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#men #pearls #swine

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#better #different #does #get #older

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#generation #hope #religion #salvation #this generation

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#back #civilization #dark #dark ages #does

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#beings #human #human beings #interested #reality

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#closed #firmly #great #i #mouth