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I had a strong sudden instinct that I must be alone. I didn’t want to see any people at all. I had seen so many people all my life -- I was an average...more

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As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way ...more

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Human sympathy has its limits.

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I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.

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Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

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Whenever you feel like criticzing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven´t had the advantages that you've had.

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It was the hour of a profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air.

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one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture.

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Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs and so I drew up the girl besid...more