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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

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• Writing

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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• Life

Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?

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• Love

It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.

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• Life

Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.

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• Love

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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• Life

An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.

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• Writing

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.

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• Love

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

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• Inspirational

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

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• Love

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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• Life

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 future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.

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• Happiness

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

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• Humor

I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything.

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• Love

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

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