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My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.

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Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses

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The past--the wild charge at the head of his men up San Juan Hill; the first years of his marriage when he worked late into the summer dusk down in the busy city for young Hildegarde whom he loved; the days before that when he sat smoking far into the night in the gloomy old Button house on Monroe Street with his grandfather-all these had faded like unsubstantial dreams from his mind as though they had never been. He did not remember.

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It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are as significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before. At thirty an organ-grinder is a more or less a moth eaten man who grinds an organ - and once he was an organ-grinder! The unmistakable stigma of humanity touches all those impersonal and beautiful things that only youth ever grasps in their impersonal glory.

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It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.

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Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.

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Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on.

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I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

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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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A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes.

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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.

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

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But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot.

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Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law.

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Never befuddle a solitary thrashing with a last annihilation.

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Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

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You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.

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I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.

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Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.

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