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"It was lonely for a day or so until one morning some man , more recently arrived than I, stopped me on the road. 'How do you get to West Egg village?' he asked helplessly. I told him. Ans as I walked on I was lonely no longer. I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler. He has casually conferred on me the freedom of the neighborhood."
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"Explore the deep ocean."
"Life is a daring adventure. I am enjoying every bit of the joyful journey."
"Life is a worthwhile adventure."
"Explore and experiment your lifetime on earth."
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"Go where imagination takes you-- not where others have gone before."
"The lack of information is what makes one go to the desert in search of some seafood."
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"If you do not begin to search, then you cannot find anything."
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"I don't ask you to love me always like this but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside of me there will always be the person I am tonight."
"He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand."
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"Communism...muat of necessity be a saddening process for anyone who has ever tasted the intellectual pleasures of the world we live in."
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"She was appalled by West Egg's raw vigour that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that eroded its inhabitants along a short-cut from nothing to nothing. She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand."
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