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It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.

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They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale---and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.

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I'm not much like myself any more.

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You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.

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

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She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself

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Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.

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I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.

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One girl can be pretty - but a dozen are only a chorus.

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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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He lifted his arms to the crystaline, radiant sky. "I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.

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

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

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It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

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Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

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We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It's a sad season of life without growth...It has no day.

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If all your clothes are worn to the same state, it means you go out too much.

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She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul. She was that unity sought for by philosophers through many centuries. In this outdoor waiting room of winds and stars she had been sitting for a hundred years, at peace in the contemplation of herself.

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The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since.

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Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.

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