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

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Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.

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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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Nothing any good isn't hard.

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Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

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Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.

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What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.

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I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.

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He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except herself.

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

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From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building.

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A squalid phantasmagoria of breath

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I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.

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Shakespeare--whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying.

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One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present.

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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

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

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Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered “Listen,” a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.

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But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up, and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room.

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