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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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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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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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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

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Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so f...more

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Each night when she prepared for bed she smeared her face with some new unguent which she hoped illogically would give back the glow and freshness to ...more

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He was good looking, "sort of distinguished when he wants to be", had a line, and was properly inconstant. In fact, he summed up all the romance that ...more

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He was changed as completely as Amory Blaine could ever be changed. Amory plus Beatrice plus two years in Minneapolis - these had been his ingredients...more

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The grass is full of ghosts tonight.' 'The whole campus is alive with them.' They paused by Little and watched the moon rise, to make silver of the sl...more

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Amory had rather a Puritan conscience. Not that he yielded to it--later in life he almost completely slew it--but at fifteen it made him consider hims...more

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Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. The...more