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To be sure, an ordinary passer-by would think that my rose looked just like you-- the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars (except the two or three that we saved to become butterflies); because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose.

it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden, thrilling. It's like a spell, of sorts. It deflates them, reduces them to the common denominator where they can be dealt with.

Sorrise con aria comprensiva, molto più che comprensiva. Era uno di quei sorrisi rari, dotati di un eterno incoraggiamento, che si incontrano quattro o cinque volte nella vita. Affrontava - o pareva affrontare - l'intero eterno mondo per un attimo, e poi si concentrava sulla persona a cui era rivolto con un pregiudizio irresistibile a suo favore. La capiva esattamente fin dove voleva essere capita, credeva in lei come a lei sarebbe piaciuto credere in se stessa, e la assicurava di aver ricevuto da lei esattamente l'impressione che sperava di produrre nelle condizioni migliori.

if you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.

... todo impulso del sentimiento ha de ser dirigido por la razón y en mi opinión , el esfuerzo debe de ser proporcional a lo que se pretende.

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I have failed once again to fulfill the expectations of others, which have become my own. I

What goes click ninety-nine times and clack once? A centipede with a clubfoot.

...] gli occhi mi caddero su Gatsby, in piedi, solo sui gradini di marmo, intento a passare lo sguardo da un gruppo all'altro approvando con gli occhi. La pelle abbronzata del viso era liscia e attraente, e i capelli corti avevano l'aria di essere aggiustati ogni giorno. Non riuscii a vedere nulla di sinistro in lui. Mi chiesi se il fatto che non beveva aiutasse a distinguerlo dagli ospiti, perchè mi pareva che diventasse sempre più corretto e misurato che l'allegria generale cresceva.

the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future, and so they spent more time thinking about it. About the future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future—you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.

it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

I will venture to say that my investigations and decisions are not usually influenced by my hopes or fears.

I think about pearls. Pearls are congealed oyster spit.

And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else.

L'ufficiale, mentre Daisy parlava, la fissava come tutte le ragazzine desidarano essere fissate una volta o l'altra [...]. Lui si chiamava Jay Gatsby [...].

The longer I do my job, he said, the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It’s so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel. That is really lovely, my

Es gran lectora, y no encuentra placer en otra cosa.

but without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error, and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people’s feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

In the course of this life I have had a great many encounters with a great many people who have been concerned with matters of consequence. I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn't much improved my opinion of them

I want a clean cup,' interrupted the Hatter: 'let's all move one place on.