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There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people lo...more

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Don't you believe I love you? Don't know how I can make you believe. I didn't want to kiss you goodbye--that was the trouble--I wanted to kiss you goo...more

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I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris b...more

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If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

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You’re beautiful. You walk wonderfully and if I were here and saw you now for the first time I’d be in love with you. If I saw you for the first time ...more

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I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.

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I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So th...more

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There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refi...more

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Look at the ugliness. Yet one has a feeling within one that blinds a man while he loves you. You, with that feeling, blind him, and blind yourself. Th...more

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Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again.""Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?""Yes. I want to ruin you....more

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When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

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At night, there was the feeling that we had come home, feeling no longer alone, waking in the night to find the other one there, and not gone away; al...more

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Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.

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I had gone...to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at the wall to make it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you...more