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I want to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally.

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Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutary day-time advice for everyone. But at three o’clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn’t work—and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

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...one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture.

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The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes.

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Think how you love me,' she whispered. 'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember.' You'll always be like this to me.' Oh no; but promise me you'll remember.' Her tears were falling. 'I'll be different, but somewhere lost inside me there'll always be the person I am tonight.

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Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

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Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.

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That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.

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So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.

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Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.

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Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering

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He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.

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People living alone get used to loneliness.

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The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.

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You've got an awfully kissable mouth.

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

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I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.

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The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American.

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Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.

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