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She was a mischief, and that was a satisfaction; no longer was she a huntress of corralled game

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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

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Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one. . . . Vitality never "takes." You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice.

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The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind

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I'm inclined to reserve all judgement, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.

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Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend.

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unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories

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If you are strong enough, there are no precedents.

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All I think of ever is that I love you.

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Stahr's eyes and Kathleen's met and tangled. For an instant they made love as no one ever dares to do after. Their glance was slower than an embrace, more urgent than a call.

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You can stroke people with words.

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I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

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As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently an knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table--the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.

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I'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence.

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Want any of this stuff? Jordan?... Nick?" I didn't answer. Nick?" he asked again. What?" Want any?" No... I just remembered that today's my birthday." I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

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When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.

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...their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each other's presence, a new serenity.

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I guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more.

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So they were desperately in love and being desperately in love involves a desperate existence.

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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

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