The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDLong 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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You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.
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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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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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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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We all have souls of different ages.
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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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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
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I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.
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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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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
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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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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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Someday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.
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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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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
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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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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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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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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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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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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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