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She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.

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You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.

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I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye.

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He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.

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The things that'll make you fail I'll love always.

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the cracked plate has to be retained in the pantry, has to be kept in service as a household necessity. It can never be warmed on the stove nor shuffled with the other plates in the dishpan; it will not be brought out for company but it will do to hold crackers late at night or to go into the ice-box with the left overs.

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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

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The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

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He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to find it, perhaps, yet in itself that quest had been happier than anything he expected forevermore. Life, it seemed, must be a setting up of props around one - otherwise it was disaster. There was no rest, no quiet. He had been futile in longing to drift and dream, no one drifted except to maelstroms, no one dreamed, without his dreams becoming fantastic nightmares of indecision and regret.

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I don't like girls in the daytime,' he said shortly, and then thinking this a bit abrupt, he added: 'But I like you.' He cleared his throat. 'I like you first and second and third.

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My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.

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I was too absorbed to be responsive

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Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

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Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream's shadow.

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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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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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And Yale is November, crisp and energetic.

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This is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding-- it's got to burst in on you like a dream, like the exquisite eyes of a girl.

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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

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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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