I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDLife 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.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
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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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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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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.
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Never confuse activity with action.
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You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.
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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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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.
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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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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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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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