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She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.

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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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The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

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Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream's shadow.

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Action is character.

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They were still in the happier stages of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered.

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There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.

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Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of power - to certain people at certain times an essential luxury, carrying with it not a guarantee but a responsibility, not a security but an infinite risk. Its very momentum might drag him down to ruin - the passing of the emotional wave that made it possible might leave the one who made it high and dry forever on an island of despair...Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal; sacrifice should be eternally supercilious.

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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

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good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.

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Stahr's eyes and Kathleen's met and tangled. For an instant they made love as no one ever dares to do after. Their glance was slower than an embrace, more urgent than a call.

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

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Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice. --The Sensible Thing

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I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.

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Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

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I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.

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

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This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.

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