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There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.

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Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

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mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and--and in love before they're born.

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Receding from grief, it seems necessary to retrace the same steps that brought us there.

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He dispensed starlight to casual moths.

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The water reached up for her, pulled her down tenderly out of the heat, seeped in her hair and ran into the corners of her body. She turned round and round in it, embracing it, wallowing in it.

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I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our attention most and the children echo those manners enough to seem like their parents.

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It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

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Ernest [Hemmingway] was always ready to lend a helping hand to the one on the rung above him.

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Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts.

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

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It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light. The Shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves. There was a slow, pleasant movement in the air, scarcely a wind, promising a cool, lovely day.

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First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous quantity of it, and that it roared and roared-really all the banalities about the ocean that one could realize, but if any one had told him then that these things were banalities, he would have gaped in wonder.

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Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

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If you're in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh.

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unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories

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His hand took hold of hers, and as she said something low in his ear he turned toward her with a rush of emotion. I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn’t be over-dreamed —that voice was a deathless song.

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