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Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss. 'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two.

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To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

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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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Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.

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Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.

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The rich get richer and the poor get - children.

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Nothing any good isn't hard.

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The things that'll make you fail I'll love always.

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Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.

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"If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay," said Gatsby. "You always have a green light that burns at the end of your dock." Daisy put her arm through his abruptly but he seemed absorbed in what he had just said. Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to him, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted things had diminished by one.

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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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my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me.

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Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.

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People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.

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

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And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged--the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

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You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty.” - Hildegarde

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One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.

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

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