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Never confuse activity with action.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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Ability Function Hold Intelligence Time
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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Confusion Defeat
A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.
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Desire Himself Kiss Man Wife Woman
I didn’t realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.
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Day End Myself Time
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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Hope Myself Person Romantic
Someday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.
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Dreams Let Go Love Myself Relationship
You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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Heart Oneself Place
Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
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Art Creativity Important Intensity Life Process
To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
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Brilliant Heart Important Kind Listening Mindset People Right Time
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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Growth Mindset Myself People Place See
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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Beautiful Literature Lonely Yourself
Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
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Fast Ourselves Run
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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Ability Dedication Effort Enough Inspirational Start Yourself
No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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Exploration Low Unknown Yourself
There’s no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don’t feel it at all.
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Fake Substitution Time Yourself
So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
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Himself Listening Patience Stars Wait

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