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 FITZGERALDThe greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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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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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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I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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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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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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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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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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Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know–because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.
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Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.
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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.
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I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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