Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDExperience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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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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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
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I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
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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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Never confuse activity with action.
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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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There’s no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don’t feel it at all.
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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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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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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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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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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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Someday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.
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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 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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I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
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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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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 don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.
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Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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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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