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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDSo we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
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The reason one writes isn’t the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
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Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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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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We all have souls of different ages.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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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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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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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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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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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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