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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

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I don't think he was ever happy unless someone was in love with him, responding to him like filings to a magnet, helping him to explain himself, promising him something. What it was I do not know. Perhaps they promised that there would always be women in the world who would spend their brightest, freshest, rarest hours to nurse and protect that superiority he cherished in his heart.

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It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.

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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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Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.

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One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.

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

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The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility

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Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -- or else it is nothing, an empty, formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.

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I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.

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If you are strong enough, there are no precedents.

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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

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An unread book is just a block of paper.

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Rosemary bubbled with delight at the trunks. Her naivete responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity and its lack of innocence, unaware that it was all a selection of quality rather than quantity from the run of the world's bazaar; and that the simplicity of behavior also, the nursery-like peace and good will, the emphasis on the simpler virtues, was part of a desperate bargain with the gods and had been attained through struggles she could not have guessed at.

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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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It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could do anything he wanted to do, but found that there was nothing that he wanted to do.

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So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

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You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.

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From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building.

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I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish.

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