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It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.

It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.

You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation. We're tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers... coax us, 'Be calm! Be patient! Wait! We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.' For ten thousand years they've said that. We want our Utopia now — and we're going to try our hands at it.

Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.

The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires—to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty. ... He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected. —chapter 8

Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-

She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.

The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.