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"Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home."
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"Solitude is a wonderful treasure the world is still yet to discover."

"The question "who am I" is the first question that every person should ask himself."

"The time we are living in is a significant time."

"Every human being is a reflection of this universe."

"Find a place to think and a person to love and be happy."

"The purpose of our activities on earth must go beyond bread and butter or merely surviving."

"Take one minute every day and think hard about your life. You will always change for the best."

"Carefully analyze the old stories that you choose to perpetually tell, for these are really life-long meditations."

"If you don't want to regret your life later, then begin to invest your time, begin to measure your life. Measure your life by the products and by the results you produce!"

"One secret to wisdom: think more, speak less. If you let your words be few, your troubles will not be many."
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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."

"He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows."

"We'll all be failures?""Yes. I don't mean only money failures, but just sort of - of ineffectual and sad, and - oh, how can I tell you?"

"There are always those to whom all self-revelation is contemptible, unless it ends with a noble thanks to the gods for the Unconquerable Soul."

"One emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture."

"I don't think he was ever happy unless someone was in love with him, responding to him like filings to a magnet, helping him to explain himself, promising him something. What it was I do not know. Perhaps they promised that there would always be women in the world who would spend their brightest, freshest, rarest hours to nurse and protect that superiority he cherished in his heart."
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