You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDIt 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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I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
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We all have souls of different ages.
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I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.
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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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A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.
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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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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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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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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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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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I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
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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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You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.
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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 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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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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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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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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To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
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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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Never confuse activity with action.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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