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There’s no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don’t feel it at all.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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Condition Essential Happiness Life Struggle Yourself
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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Ability Enough Persistence Start Yourself
Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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Ability Argument Intelligence Measurement Person See
The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
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Existence Eyes Small World Yourself
I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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Life Myself Variety
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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Break Drink End Healing Human Ideas Ourselves
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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Care Cry Fire Myself
I never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
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Blame Complication Effort Failure Life Mercy Myself Situation
So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
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Course Flow Sorry
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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Hard Hurt Life People Worst
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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Ability Persistence Vital
At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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Cave Hide Ourselves
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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Fall Hard Time Life Start
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
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Ability Function Hold Intelligence Time
I didn’t realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.
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Day End Myself Time
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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Intimacy Recover

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