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Gertrude Stein Quotes about History

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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

Gertrude Stein
History, Doe, Soothing
"Wars I Have Seen". Book by Gertrude Stein, 1945.

History takes time. History makes memory.

Gertrude Stein
Memories, History, Literature

... there was the first Balkan war and the second Balkan war and then there was the first world war. It is extraordinary how having done a thing once you have to do it again, there is the pleasure of coincidence and there is the pleasure of repetition, and so there is the second world war, and in between there was the Abyssinian war and the Spanish civil war.

Gertrude Stein
War, History, Done
Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.84, Random House

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