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The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.

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Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!

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I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.

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Once we were one person, and always it will be a little that way.

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The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners, as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long.

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She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.

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The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.

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As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.

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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

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Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.

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

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When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors. It should be a rule that bad writers must start with plain heroines and ordinary mornings, and, if they are able, work up to something better.

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She smiled at him, making sure that the smile gathered up everything inside her and directed it toward him, making him a profound promise of herself for so little, for the beat of a response, the assurance of a complimentary vibration in him.

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When Eleanor's arm touched his he felt his hands grow cold with deadly fear lest he should lose the shadow brush with which his imagination was painting wonders of her. He watched her from the corners of his eyes as ever he did when he walked with her-- she was a feast and a folly and he wished it had been his destiny to sit forever on a haystack and see life through her green eyes.

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...I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.

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why shouldn't he? All life is just a progression toward and then a recession from one phrase-- 'I love you

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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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It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.

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The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.

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