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I am glad you are happy--but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen ...more

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions th...more

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It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

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The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be.

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The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from...more

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This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous, and, I must ...more

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For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find you're not, I hope you ...more

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She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her ey...more

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Many times he had tried unsuccessfully to let go his hold on her. They had many fine times together, fine talks between the loves of the white nights,...more

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You've got an awfully kissable mouth.

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He was in love with every pretty woman he saw now, their forms at a distance, their shadows on the walls.

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Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.

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A young man can work at excessive speed with no ill effects, but youth is unfortunately not a permanent condition of life.

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So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

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We'll all be failures?""Yes. I don't mean only money failures, but just sort of - of ineffectual and sad, and - oh, how can I tell you?