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The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.

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He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.

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Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so yours, here--

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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

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Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

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What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

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I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.

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Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is cleared by the reed of the scribe. As a fossil in the rock, or a coin in the mortar of a ruin, So the symbolled thoughts tell of a departed soul: The plastic hand hath its witness in a statue, and exactitude of vision in a picture, And so, the mind, that was among us, in its writings is embalmed.

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There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret for his lost youth-yet the waters of disillusion had left a deposit on his soul, responsibility and a love of life, the faint stirring of old ambitions and unrealized dreams...... And he could not tell why the struggle was worth while, why he had determined to use to the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.

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Character is plot, plot is character.

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The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic.

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You are mine-you know you're mine!" he cried wildly...the moonlight twisted in through the vines and listened...the fireflies hung upon their whispers as if to win his glance from the glory of their eyes.

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For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.

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

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The rich get richer and the poor get - children.

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Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.

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They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another, than when she brushed silent lips against his coat's shoulder or when he touched the end of her fingers, gently, as though she were asleep.

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Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you

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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

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Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit.

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