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She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.

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He did not understand all he had heard, but from his clandestine glimpse into the privacy of these two, with all the world that his short experience could conceive of at their feet, he had gathered that life for everybody was a struggle, sometimes magnificent from a distance, but always difficult and surprisingly simple and a little sad.

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i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires

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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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You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.

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How strange to have failed as a social creature—even criminals do not fail that way—they are the law's "Loyal Opposition," so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.

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We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in their statesmen, but they can't. Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical ill-considered criticism.

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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

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He was resentful against all those in authority over him, and this, combined with a lazy indifference toward his work, exasperated every master in school. He grew discouraged and imagined himself a pariah; took to sulking in corners and reading after lights. With a dread of being alone he attached a few friends, but since they were not among the elite of the school, he used them simply as mirrors of himself, audiences before which he might do that posing absolutely essential to him. He was unbearably lonely, desperately unhappy.

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People living alone get used to loneliness.

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Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.

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

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An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.

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It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

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The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes.

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A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.

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

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Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.

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They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

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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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