Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDSo we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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Never confuse activity with action.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged–the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.
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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.
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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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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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
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There’s no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don’t feel it at all.
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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Life is so damned hard, so damned hard… It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can’t be hurt ever any more. That’s the last and worst thing it does.
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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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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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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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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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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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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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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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Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
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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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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
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So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
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Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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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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