I never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDEither 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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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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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.
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I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
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Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created – nothing.
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She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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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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Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
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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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You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
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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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She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.
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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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