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Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

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

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Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan.

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Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.

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When I'm with you, I don't breathe quite right.

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It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.

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Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.

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I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all.

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Many nights he lay there dreaming awake of secret cafés in Mont Marte, where ivory women delved in romantic mysteries with diplomats and soldiers of fortune, while orchestras played Hungarian waltzes and the air was thick and exotic with intrigue and moonlight and adventure.

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A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.

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The sun had gone down behind the tall apartments of the movie stars in the West Fifties, and the unclear voices of children, already gathered like crikets on the grass, rose through the hot twilight.

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I've got an adjective that just fits you.

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For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

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Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery.

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She wouldn't let go of the letter. She took it into the tub with her and squeezed it up in a wet ball, and only let me leave it in the soap dish when she saw that it was coming to pieces like snow.

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Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.

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All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.

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What a wonderful song, she thought-everything was wonderful tonight, most of all this romantic scene in the den with their hands clinging and the inevitable looming charmingly close. The future vista of her life seemed an unending succession of scenes like this: under moonlight and pale starlight, and in the backs of warm limousines and in low cosy roadsters stopped under sheltering trees-only the boy might change, and this one was so nice.

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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

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Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night

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