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He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.

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This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.

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That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.

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Once a change of direction has begun, even though it's the wrong one, it still tends to clothe itself as thoroughly in the appurtenances of Tightness as if it had been a natural all along.

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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

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A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.

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Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law.

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he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.

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

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I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor

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They seemed nearer, not only mentally, but physically when they read ... Their chance was to make everything fine and finished and rich and imaginative; they must bend tiny golden tentacles from his imagination to hers, that would take the place of the great, deep love that was never so near, yet never so much of a dream.

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You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.

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I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

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Exploration was for those with a measure of peasant blood, those with big thighs and thick ankles who could take punishment as they took bread and salt, on every inch of flesh and spirit.

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The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

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If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again.

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It’s just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they’re never coming again, and I’m not really getting all I could out of them.

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I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.

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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

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but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.

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