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He was handsome then if never before, bound for one of those immortal moments which come so radiantly that their remembered light is enough to see by for years.

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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged--the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

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An unread book is just a block of paper.

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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.

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Never walk near the bed; to a ghost your ankle is your most vulnerable part-once in bed, you're safe; he may lie around under the bed all night, but you're safe as daylight. If you still have doubts pull the blanket over your head.

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They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealists.' One minute they call Wilson 'just a dreamer, not practical'- a year later they rail at him for making his dreams realities. They haven't clear logical ideas on one single subject except a sturdy, stolid opposition to all change. They don't think uneducated people should be highly paid, but they won't see that if they don't pay the uneducated people their children are going to be uneducated too, and we're going round and round in a circle. That- is the great middle class.

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A squalid phantasmagoria of breath

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At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner -- young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

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I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

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Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.

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How different it all was from what you'd planned.

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There has never been an American tragedy. There have only been great failures.

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There's so much spring in the air- there's so much lazy sweetness in your heart.

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All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream

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A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.

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We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.

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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

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He felt married to her, that was all.

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Amory: I love you. Rosalind: I love you- now.

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I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.

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