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"The beauty of this day doesn't depend on its lasting forever."

"Beautiful isn't something you become. It's something you realize you are."

"Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive."

"The scent of flowers is the glory of gardens and the scent of art is the glory of Paris!"

"However beautiful a morning may be, we still must not wish it to continue endlessly, because this shall mean missing forever all the beauties of the night!"
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"Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed."


"Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is."


"Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... Perhaps it could not live anywhere else."


"Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid."


"Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar. Man the sum of his climatic experiences Father said. Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire."


"I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time."


"He got off on Lincoln and slavery and dared any man there to deny that Lincoln and the negro and Moses and the children of Israel were the same, and that the Red Sea was just the blood that had to be spilled in order that the black race might cross into the Promised Land."
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