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

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And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

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

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Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

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I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

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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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I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.

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

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

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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

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