| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 55482 |
| QUOTATION: | A beauty is not suddenly in a circle. It comes with rapture. A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), U.S. author. (Written 1920), originally published in Last Operas and Plays (1949). “A Circular Play,” A Stein Reader, ed. Ulla E. Dydo, Northwestern University Press (1993). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Stein Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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