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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

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I'm a cynical idealist.

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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

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When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm

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If all your clothes are worn to the same state, it means you go out too much.

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In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod-always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults-rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

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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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Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin - but they don't, even you and I.

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She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven.

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i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires

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They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

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He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive.

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For years afterwards when Amory thought of Eleanor he seemed still to hear the wind sobbing around him and sending little chills into the places beside his heart. The night when they rode up the slope and watched the cold moon float through the clouds, he lost a further part of him that nothing could restore; and when he lost it he lost also the power of regretting it.

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So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

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I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.

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I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

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First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous quantity of it, and that it roared and roared-really all the banalities about the ocean that one could realize, but if any one had told him then that these things were banalities, he would have gaped in wonder.

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently an knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table--the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.

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Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.

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