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I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.

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She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.

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...I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.

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You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!

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I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.

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One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

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Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.

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I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk about Russia, ping-pong, or the League of Nations and get away with it.

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There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--

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Men she knew'? - she had conceded vaguely to herself that all men who had ever been in love with her were her friends.

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he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.

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The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle.

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but they were frightened at his survivant will, once a will to live, now become a will to die.

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Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses-

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He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.

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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 couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.

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It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

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