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 FITZGERALDExperience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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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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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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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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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 am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
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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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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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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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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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You 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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