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Human sympathy has its limits.

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Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour.

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A writer's temperament is continually making him do things he can never repair.

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To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed.

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In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod-always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults-rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

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He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.

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Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.

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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had

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Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.

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There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

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You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

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But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down.

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Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.

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It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.

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He had no plans, no definite intentions, except to kiss her lips again, to hold her in his arms.

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I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway

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America is a willingness of the heart.

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