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And Yale is November, crisp and energetic.

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I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.

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The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.

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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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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

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You're a rotten driver,' I protested. 'Either you ought to be more careful or you oughtn't to drive at all.' 'I am careful.' 'No, you're not.' 'Well, other people are,' she said lightly. 'What's that got to do with it?' 'They'll keep out of my way,' she insisted. 'It takes two to make an accident.' 'Suppose you met somebody just as careless as yourself.' 'I hope I never will,' she answered. 'I hate careless people. That's why I like you.' Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her.

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She felt a little betrayed and sad, but presently a moving object came into sight. It was a huge horse-chestnut tree in full bloom bound for the Champs Elysees, strapped now into a long truck and simply shaking with laughter - like a lovely person in an undignified position yet confident none the less of being lovely. Looking at it with fascination, Rosemary identified herself with it, and laughed cheerfully with it, and everything all at once seemed gorgeous.

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I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life.

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Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable… .

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In the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was slightly out of order, you went on the wagon for a few days without saying anything about it, and waited until an accumulation of nervous boredom projected you into another party.

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To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

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Life is progressive, no matter what our intentions.

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For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!

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That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

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but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.

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As he took her hand she saw him look her over from head to foot, a gesture she recognized and that made her feel at home, but gave her always a faint feeling of superiority to whoever made it. If her person was property she could exercise whatever advantage was inherent in its ownership.

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You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.

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i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself

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He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.

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