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?
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDYou’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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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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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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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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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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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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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
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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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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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The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one’s mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind
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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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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
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