It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
(As Fine As Melanctha, 1914 - 1930)

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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

Gertrude Stein (Everybody's Autobiography, 1937)

We are always the same age inside.

Gertrude Stein (Quoted in The American Treasury, 1955)

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

Gertrude Stein (Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925)

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