I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

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Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

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I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.

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

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

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Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

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Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

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Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.

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