American writer Gertrude Stein spent most of her life in France. She wrote novels, plays, stories, libretti, and poems, but is best remembered for a line from a 1913 poem, "A rose is a rose is a rose." She was noted for her sometimes arcane observations formulated in "pithy prose". These are quotations that say more in one or two sentences than could be expressed in a thousand-word treatise. They are like pouring a liter of liquid into a half-liter bottle.
“The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all... I am not quite sure whether i am dreaming or remembering, whether i have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.”
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