When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
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I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.
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Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know–because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.
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I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
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One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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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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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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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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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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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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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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Long 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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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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