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1 " He held her hand and she gave him such a look that he whispered her name aloud. "
― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
2 " It's like lifting off in an airplane: you're on the ground, on the ground, on the ground... and then you're up, riding on a magical cushion of air and prince of all you survey. That makes me happy, because it's what I was made to do. "
3 " In ten seconds he had completely lost his appetite and gained on hundred thousand dollars. "
4 " It is youth's felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imaged future - flowers and gold, girls and stars, they are only pre-figurations and prophecies of that incomparable, unattainable young dream. "
5 " Nu înțelesese tot ce auzise, dar din privirea ilicită aruncată în viața intimă a celor doi - care, din câte își putea da el seama din firava lui experiență, aveau toată lumea la picioare - trăsese concluzia că pentru absolut toți oamenii viața era o luptă, uneori magnifică dacă o contemplai de departe, dar întodeauna grea, surprinzător de simplă și oarecum tristă. "
6 " Nu ne este dat să cunoaștem momentele rare când oamenii se deschid larg și cea mai ușoară atingere poate veșteji sau tămădui. "
7 " His father had tried time and time again to have it changed to something with a little more push and verve about it, such as "Hades--Your Opportunity," or else a plain "Welcome" sign set over a hearty handshake pricked out in electric lights. "