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They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.

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I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

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What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

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The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.

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...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.

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What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?

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I'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence.

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Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.

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I want to just be lazy and I want some of the people around me to be doing things, because that makes me feel comfortable and safe - and I want some of them to be doing nothing at all, because they can be graceful and companionable for me.

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Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

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Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created - nothing.

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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. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

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People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.

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Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

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The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.

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he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour.

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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

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She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken.

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To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed.

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Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

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