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Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.

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The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.

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His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

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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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Amory wondered how people could fail to notice that he was a boy marked for glory, and when faces of the throng turned toward him and ambiguous eyes stared into his, he assumed the most romantic of expressions and walked on the air cushions that lie on the asphalts of fourteen.

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All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream

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why shouldn't he? All life is just a progression toward and then a recession from one phrase-- 'I love you

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Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time anyone else has been so caught up and so pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before. Then we learn our trade, well or less well, and we tell our two or three stories - each time in a new disguise - maybe ten times, maybe a hundred, as long as people will listen.

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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

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He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.

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There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.

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To the wingless a more interesting phenomenon is their (W/E Egg) dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.

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

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Shakespeare--whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying.

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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

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in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes

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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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A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.

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Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something-an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I heard somewhere a long time ago. For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. But they made no sound and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever.

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