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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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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?

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Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and fut...more

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If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.

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He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to find it, ...more

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My mind, brightened by the lights and the cheerful tumult, suddenly grasped the fact that all achievement was a placing of emphasis-- a moulding of th...more

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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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He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.