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Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

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Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

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There were days when Amory resented that life had changed from an even progress along a road stretching ever in sight, with the scenery merging and bl...more

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She went out socially with him, but without enthusiasm, devoured already by that eternal inertia which comes to live with each of us one day and stays...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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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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Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

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This western-front business couldn’t be done again, not for a long time. The young men think they could do it but they couldn’t. They could fight the ...more

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Her fine high forehead sloped gently up to where her hair, bordering it like an armorial shield, burst into lovelocks and waves and curlicues of ash b...more

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When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.

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Her eyes in the half-light suggested night and violets, and for a moment he stirred again to that half-forgotten remoteness of the afternoon.

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The fruit of youth or of the grape, the transitory magic of the brief passage from darkness to darkness - the old illusion that truth and beauty were ...more

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I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition...more

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Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be develop...more

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It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are significant and me...more