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“Emily was feeling the elation of conscientious hosts when they can temporarily escape a ubiquitous houseguest.”

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The principle of literature is devotion to the particulars of life.

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Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect…

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Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams…

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When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from what the…

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Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair.

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Anywhere everywhere! Anything anyhow! just dance!

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Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.

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I had a great dislike to the annoyances entailed by baggage; and it was always with some feeling of elation that I cut myself…

Herbert Spencer

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There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.

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The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile…

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