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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDYou see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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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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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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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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So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
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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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You really ought to read more books – you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
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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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Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created – nothing.
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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 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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The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.
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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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Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?
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Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.
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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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I want to tell you about your heart— you’ve probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.
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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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The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
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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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It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.
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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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