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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

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The mind of a little child is fascinating, for it looks on old things with new eyes-but at about twelve this changes. The adolescent offers nothing, can do nothing, say nothing that the adult cannot do better.

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I can’t exactly describe how I feel but it’s not quite right. And it leaves me cold.

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That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory.

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smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.

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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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There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.

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And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.

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She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.

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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

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Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.

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No," interrupted Marcia emphatically. "And you're a sweet boy. Come here and kiss me." Horace stopped quickly in front of her. "Why do you want me to kiss you?" he asked intently. "Do you just go round kissing people?" "Why, yes," admitted Marcia, unruffled. "'At's all life is. Just going around kissing people.

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It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future

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he was figuratively following along beside her as she walked the fence, ready to catch her if she should fall.

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Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time. - The Great Gatsby.

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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 suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.

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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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Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.

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They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another, than when she brushed silent lips against his coat's shoulder or when he touched the end of her fingers, gently, as though she were asleep.

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