“ Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. ”
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“ First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures, attitudes, a burning phrase with no context. ”
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“ When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out. ”
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“ When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out. ”
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“ A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces. ”
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“ But here I do see how everyone feels." "I wonder if I like that," said Eddie. "I suspect how people feel, and that seems to me bad enough—I wonder if the truth would be worse or better. The truth, of course I mean, about other people. I know only too well how I feel. ”
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“ Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem. ”
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“ Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk without loss of esteem. ”
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“ Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't. ”
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“ When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. ”
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“ When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. ”
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“ Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself — in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. ”
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“ The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart. ”
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“ When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. ”
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“ Who ever is adequate? We all create situations which others can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't. ”
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“ Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness. ”
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“ With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe. ”
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“ The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round. ”
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“ The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better. ”
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“ It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home. ”
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“ It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets. ”
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“ Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone. ”
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“ Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. ”
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“ Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. ”
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