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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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Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

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It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

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Forgotten is forgiven.

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

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If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again.

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New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.

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She admired him; she was used to clutching her hands together in his wake and heaving audible sighs.

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Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created - nothing.

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Then there came a faraway, booming voice like a low, clear bell. It came from the center of the bowl and down the great sides to the ground and then bounced toward her eagerly. 'You see I am fate,' it shouted, 'and stronger than your puny plans; and I am how-things-turn-out and I am different from your little dreams, and I am the flight of time and the end of beauty and unfulfilled desire; all the accidents and imperceptions and the little minutes that shape the crucial hours are mine. I am the exception that proves no rules, the limits of your control, the condiment in the dish of life.

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It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

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She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.

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They seemed nearer, not only mentally, but physically when they read ... Their chance was to make everything fine and finished and rich and imaginative; they must bend tiny golden tentacles from his imagination to hers, that would take the place of the great, deep love that was never so near, yet never so much of a dream.

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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

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No one should live beyond 30.

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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

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Want any of this stuff? Jordan?... Nick?" I didn't answer. Nick?" he asked again. What?" Want any?" No... I just remembered that today's my birthday." I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

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i'm in a muddle about a lot of things -- i've just discovered that i've a mind, and i'm starting to read" "read what?" "everything. i have to pick and choose, of course, but mostly things that make me think.

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I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

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Shakespeare--whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying.

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