We all have souls of different ages
All the bright precious things fade so fast, and they don't come back.
The rich get richer and the poor get - children.
There's only one lesson to be learned form life, anyway, not in contradiction but in a sort of melancholy agreement.
Life cracked like ice.
Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.
Things are sweeter when they're lost.
Life is a series of successful gestures.
No one likes to see people in moods of despair they themselves have survived.
Life begins again when it gets crisp in the fall.
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
Reform won't catch up to the needs of civilization unless it's made to.
Smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.
The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.
Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.
Happiness, remarked one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery
The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.
Common sense mean applied to a complicated problems.
Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.
Biography is the falsest of the arts.
