It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.
~ Gertrude Stein
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
~ Gertrude Stein
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A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
~ Gertrude Stein
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A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.
~ Milan Kundera
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In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia.
~ Milan Kundera
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The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. They are fighting for access to the laboratories where photographs are retouched and biographies and histories rewritten.
~ Milan Kundera
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The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it.
~ Milan Kundera
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