Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDI’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had.
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The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
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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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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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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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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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It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
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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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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one’s mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind
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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
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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.
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