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“It occurred to him that all strongly accentuated classes, such as the military, divided men into two kinds: their own kind—and those without.”
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“There's nothing I'd violate certain principles for." "But how do you know when you're violating them? You have to guess at things just like most people do. You have to apportion the values when you look back. You finish up the portrait then—paint in the details and shadows.”
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“The particular weakness he indulged on this occasion was his need of excitement and stimulus from without.”
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“Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later. For instance, the beautiful word, the colored and glittering word, and the beautiful simile belong in prose now. To get attention poetry has got to strain for the unusual word, the harsh, earthy word that's never been beautiful before.”
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― The Beautiful and Damned
“I don't believe there's any one alive who can contemplate themselves as an impermanent institution, as a luxury or an unnecessary evil. Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin—but they don't, even you and I….”
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― The Beautiful and Damned
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