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Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

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I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.

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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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No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

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Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which only spared children and the very old-even then it had always for me a quality of distortion.

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You'll find another.' God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.

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Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial pools, and slow clouds sailed harmoniously above the willow. May came too soon, and suddenly unable to bear walls, he wandered the campus at all hours through starlight and rain.

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For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!

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There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.

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Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.

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Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity.

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I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

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He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.

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She knew few words and believed in none.

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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

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I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.

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Her voice is full of money.

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All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream

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Little Montenegro! He lifted up the words and nodded at them-with his smile. The smile comprehended Montenegro’s troubled history and sympathized with the brave struggles of the Montenegrin people. It appreciated fully the chain of national circumstances, which had elicited this tribute from Montenegro’s warm little heart. My incredulity was submerged in fascination now; it was like skimming hastily through a dozen magazines.

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