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smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.

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You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.

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She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven.

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I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.

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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

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I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition.

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Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that.

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When Eleanor's arm touched his he felt his hands grow cold with deadly fear lest he should lose the shadow brush with which his imagination was painting wonders of her. He watched her from the corners of his eyes as ever he did when he walked with her-- she was a feast and a folly and he wished it had been his destiny to sit forever on a haystack and see life through her green eyes.

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People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate.

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It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.

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She had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with something more important than herself, a battle or an operation, during which he must not be hurried or interfered with. When the man had finished she would be waiting, without fret or impatience, somewhere on a highstool, turning the pages of a newspaper.

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To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

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The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

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Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself.

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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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Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

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When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love. It's happened to me before but never like this - so accidental - just when everything was going well.

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The afternoon had made them tranquil for a while, as if to give them a deep memory for the long parting the next day promised.

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An unread book is just a block of paper.

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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

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