It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDShe was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.
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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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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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It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
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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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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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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged–the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.
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So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
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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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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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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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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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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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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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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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