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Clearly, he now had not to be anguished, not to suffer passively, by mere reasoning about unresolvable questions, but to do something without fail, at once, quickly.

The instant her voice broke off ceasing to compel my attention, my belief, I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said.

It is in just such stupid things clever people are most easily caught. The more cunning a man is, the less he suspects that he will be caught in a simple thing. The more cunning a man is, the simpler the trap he must be caught in. Porfiry is not such a fool as you think....

There was something pathetic in his concentration, as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him anymore.

I wish we had horses to ride," Maria said. "In my happiness I would like to be on a good horse and ride fast with thee riding fast beside me and we would ride faster and faster, galloping, and never pass my happiness.

There are situations in life which bring the impartial observer to the conclusion that suicide is a luxury which is within the reach of, and permissible to, wealthy people.

I have been drunk just twice in my life, and the second time was that afternoon…

I had always wanted a watch. Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the run, people with appointments to keep and schedules to meet. That was the kind of person I wanted to be.

He wandered aimlessly. The sun was setting. A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling of permanence, of eternity about it; it brought a foretaste of hopeless years of this cold leaden misery, a foretaste of an eternity "on a square yard of space." Towards evening this sensation usually began to weigh on him more heavily.

He was balancing himself on the dashboard of his car with that resourcefulness of movement that is so peculiarly American - that comes, I suppose, with the absence of lifting work in youth and, even more, with the formless grace of our nervous, sporadic games.

In wine is truth, and the truth had all come out, "that is, all the uncleanness of his coarse and envious heart"!

Astenersi dal giudicare implica un’infinita speranza.

But one only woke people if one knew what one wanted to say to them. And she wanted to say not one thing, but everything.

What do you want? Everything. I want everything and I will take whatever I get.

Trifles, trifles are what matter! Why, it's just such trifles that always ruin everything… .

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. The bored haughty face that she turned to the world concealed something- most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning

He kiss’d, –the last of many doubled kisses, –this orient pearl.

Men are sex machines, said Aunt Lydia, and not much more. They only want one thing. You must learn to manipulate them, for your own good.

The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his platonic conception of himself.

Let him forever go!-Let him not, Charmian. Though he be painted one way like a Gorgon,The other way he's a Mars.