I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

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Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

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I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

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Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

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I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.

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Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

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I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.

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