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""They're a rotten crowd," I shouted across the lawn. "You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.""

"Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can!" Chapter VI is my favourite.

"It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care."

"Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have every known."

"It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life."

"In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars."

"All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.'"

"…it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again."

"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."

Re-reading! "And I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."