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The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility

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It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.

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This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.

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I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.

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

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It's a mining town in lotus land.

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Never befuddle a solitary thrashing with a last annihilation.

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When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows, and the dim lights of small Wisconsin stations moved by, a sharp wild brace came suddenly into the air. That's my middle-west - not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of my youth and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow.

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Once a change of direction has begun, even though it's the wrong one, it still tends to clothe itself as thoroughly in the appurtenances of Tightness as if it had been a natural all along.

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A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.

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His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.

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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

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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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Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.

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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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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

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I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

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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 do you think of that? It’s stopped raining." I’m glad Jay." Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy.

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