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"Selden and Lily stood still, accepting the unreality of the scene as a part of their own dream-like sensations. It would not have surprised them to feel a summer breeze on their faces, or to see the lights among the boughs reduplicated in the arch of a starry sky. The strange solitude about them was no stranger than the sweetness of being alone in it together."
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"Solitude is a wonderful treasure the world is still yet to discover."
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"The question "who am I" is the first question that every person should ask himself."
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"The time we are living in is a significant time."
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"Every human being is a reflection of this universe."
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"Find a place to think and a person to love and be happy."
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"The purpose of our activities on earth must go beyond bread and butter or merely surviving."
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"Take one minute every day and think hard about your life. You will always change for the best."
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"You can listen to the secrets of lifein the silence of night,in the voice of the ocean,in the beating of your heart.Just listen with your soul."
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"Carefully analyze the old stories that you choose to perpetually tell, for these are really life-long meditations."
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"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!"
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"Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one."
Resilience
"The noble buoyancy of her attitude, its suggestion of soaring grace, revealed the touch of poetry in her beauty that Selden always felt in her presence, yet lost the sense of when he was not with her. Its expression was now so vivid that for the first time he seemed to see before him the real Lily Bart, divested of all the trivialities of her little world, and catching for a moment a note of that eternal harmony of whichher beauty was a part."
Aesthetics
"Ah, no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocence, the innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart against experience..."
Innocence
"The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background."
Politics
"So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air."
Danger
"One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are."
Travel
"High PastureCome up--come up: in the dim vale belowThe autumn mist muffles the fading trees,But on this keen hill-pasture, though the breezeHas stretched the thwart boughs bare to meet the snow,Night is not, autumn is not--but the flowOf vast, ethereal and irradiate seas,Poured from the far world's flaming boundariesIn waxing tides of unimagined glow.And to that height illumined of the mindhe calls us still by the familiar way,Leaving the sodden tracks of life behind,Befogged in failure, chilled with love's decay--Showing us, as the night-mists upward wind,How on the heights is day and still more day."
Nature
"The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing."
Creativity
"Her failure was a useful preliminary to success."
Failure
"Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment and it helped me. It has always helped me."
Relationship
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