Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.
("The Great Gatsby")
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They were so sorry, dear; they went down to meet each other in a taxi, honey; they had preferences in smiles and had met in Hindustan, and shortly afterward they must have quarrelled, for nobody knew and nobody seemed to care - yet finally one of them had gone and left the other crying, only to feel blue, to feel sad.F. Scott Fitzgerald
Progress was a labyrinth . . . people plunging blindly in and then rushing wildly back, shouting that they had found it.
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Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which only spared children and the very old-even then it had always for me a quality of distortion.
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If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.
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It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.
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Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour.
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