It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDTo be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
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Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
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The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.
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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
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I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
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So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.
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To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
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A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.
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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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And in the end, we were all just humans, Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
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I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.
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Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
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You really ought to read more books – you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
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Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
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Someday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.
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Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.
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Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
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