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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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I'm restless. My whole generation is restless. I'm sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if he wants her, where the artist without an income has to sell his talents to a button manufacturer. Even if I had no talents I'd not be content to work ten years, condemned either to celibacy or a furtive indulgence, to give some man's son an automobile.

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Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses-

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Nothing any good isn't hard.

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Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance.

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As he took her hand she saw him look her over from head to foot, a gesture she recognized and that made her feel at home, but gave her always a faint feeling of superiority to whoever made it. If her person was property she could exercise whatever advantage was inherent in its ownership.

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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

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The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes.

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I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all.

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Talk English to me, Tommy. Parlez francais avec moi, Nicole. But the meanings are different-- in French you can be heroic and gallant with dignity, and you know it. But in English you can't be heroic and gallant without being a little absurd, and you know that too. That gives me an advantage.

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Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.

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Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend.

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And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.

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I guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more.

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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

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Courage to me means ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life-not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living. A sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things...My courage is faith-faith in the eternal resilience of me-that joy'll come back, and hope and spontaneity. And I feel that till it does, I've got to keep my lips shut and my chin high, and my eyes wide

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I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know.

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All things come to him who mates.

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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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Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. And just as any period decays in our minds, the things of that period should decay too, and in that way they're preserved for a while in the few hearts like mine that react to them. Trying to preserve a century by keeping its relics up to date is like keeping a dying man alive by stimulants.

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