Human beings Quote by Gertrude Stein

“Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the Reality and interested in telling about it.”

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I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing

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“When is there some discharge when. There never is.”

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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.

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I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that…

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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.

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“What is the answer?" [ I [Alice B Toklas] was silent ] In that case, what is the question?”

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More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable,…

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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…

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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

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Eating and sleeping are not like loving and breathing. Washing is not like eating and sleeping. Believing is like breathing and loving. Religion can be believing, it can be like breathing, it can be like loving, it can be like eating or sleeping, it can be like washing, it can be something to fill up a place when someone has…

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Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable…

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Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are…

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“Is there any holy beings like human beings?”

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A human being can only absorb a small amount of the mystical kundalini, you can be exposed again and again to it, but it…

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I recognize I am essentially a failed human being in the sense that I can't possibly live up to the expectations of an Almighty.

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A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated…

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For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.

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The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power of consecrating things and endowing them with a sort of eternity; museums are our temples, and the objects displayed in them are beyond history. Politics--or more precisely, Revolution--co-opted the other function of religion: changing human beings…

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