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interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end

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Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.

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we both fitted. If our corners were not rubbed off they were at least pulled in. But deep in us both was something that made us require more for happiness. I didn't know what I wanted

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I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation - with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with the radicals. Even if, deep in my heart, I thought we were all blind atoms in a world as limited as a stroke of a pendulum, I and my sort would struggle against tradition; try, at least, to displace old cants with new ones. I've thought I was right about life at various times, but faith is difficult. One thing I know. If living isn't seeking for the grail it may be a damned amusing game.

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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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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

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The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.

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There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.

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"I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics".

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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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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

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The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners, as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long.

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Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.

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She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.

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I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.

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The past--the wild charge at the head of his men up San Juan Hill; the first years of his marriage when he worked late into the summer dusk down in the busy city for young Hildegarde whom he loved; the days before that when he sat smoking far into the night in the gloomy old Button house on Monroe Street with his grandfather-all these had faded like unsubstantial dreams from his mind as though they had never been. He did not remember.

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It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.

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