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It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

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I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills, but getting few myself except those I read into men on such nights as these. I have the social courage to go on the stage, but not the energy; I haven't the patience to write books; and I never met a man I'd marry. However, I'm only eighteen.

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Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgment. It's the sum of all your judgments that counts.

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I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon a golf course on clean, crisp, mornings.

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Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.

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I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.

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I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

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Don't forget who you are and where you come from.

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The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

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You know, you’re a little complicated after all.” “Oh no,” she assured him hastily. “No, I’m not really - I’m just a - I’m just a whole lot of different simple people.

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Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.

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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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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

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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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Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.

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He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.

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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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