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The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

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It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.

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i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself

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If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired

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Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts fought on.

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They were still in the happier stages of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered.

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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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the cracked plate has to be retained in the pantry, has to be kept in service as a household necessity. It can never be warmed on the stove nor shuffled with the other plates in the dishpan; it will not be brought out for company but it will do to hold crackers late at night or to go into the ice-box with the left overs.

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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

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The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta.

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The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American.

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

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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

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Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play.

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There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.

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...one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture.

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It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.

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He lifted his arms to the crystaline, radiant sky. "I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.

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There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.

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At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner -- young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

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