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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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...I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.

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the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

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I've got an adjective that just fits you.

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then, as though it had been waiting on a near by roof for their arrival, the moon came slanting suddenly through the vines and turned the girl's face the color of white roses.

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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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It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest.

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And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

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Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

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One girl can be pretty - but a dozen are only a chorus.

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No decent career was ever founded on a public.

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That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory.

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If all your clothes are worn to the same state, it means you go out too much.

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Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.

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I'll never be a poet,' said Amory as he finished. 'I'm not enough of a sensualist really; there are only a few obvious things that I notice as primarily beautiful: women, spring evenings, music at night, the sea; I don't catch the subtle things like 'silver-snarling trumpets.' I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never right anything but mediocre poetry.

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It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

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It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.

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The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility

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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.

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