Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDYou really ought to read more books – you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
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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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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
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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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I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.
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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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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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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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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
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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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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.
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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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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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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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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
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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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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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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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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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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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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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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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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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