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I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.

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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

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So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.

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At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.

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He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to find it, perhaps, yet in itself that quest had been happier than anything he expected forevermore. Life, it seemed, must be a setting up of props around one - otherwise it was disaster. There was no rest, no quiet. He had been futile in longing to drift and dream, no one drifted except to maelstroms, no one dreamed, without his dreams becoming fantastic nightmares of indecision and regret.

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When the lightning strikes one of us, it strikes both

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If you are strong enough, there are no precedents.

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition.

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A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style in architecture or furniture. It's acquired a picturesque dignity to take the place of its fashion.

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I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams

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that voice was a deathless song.

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They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.

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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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I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.

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Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing.

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I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

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The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.

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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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Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -- or else it is nothing, an empty, formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.

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