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Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946

"Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories"

No it is never very much just to be a baby.
Later in life when one is proud as a man or as a lady it is not right
that they ever could have dandled and kissed and fixed them, helpless,
just a baby. Such ones never can want to feel themselves ever to have
been a baby.
No it is not very much to be a baby. It is not right to one to begin
them until a little they can resist to them who would hold them
helpless, kiss and dandle and fix them as they were then, such a very
little thing, just nothing inside to them. I say it is not right to many
of them then to begin them, but it is not all of them who would resist
them. There are some who do not feel it to be bad inside them to have
been a baby without any conscious feeling of themselves inside them, to
have been a little thing and that was all there was then of them, they
are some who have not any proud kind of feeling in them.
They are some who like it in their later living that they were then such
a very little thing and that was then all there was of them and then
others kissed and dandled and fixed them. They are those who are within
them weak or tender as the strongest thing inside them and to them it is
very much to have been a baby and to have had others to feel gently
toward them, who kissed and dandled and fixed the helpless bundle they
were then. With them being proud is not strong inside them.


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