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One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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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Beginning Creation Type Yourself
Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
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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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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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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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Civilization Discipline Natural Power Thinking Yourself
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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Met Myself People Rude
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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Forget Myself Sad Stranger Try
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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Intimacy Recover
Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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Close Kiss Love Relationship Romance Yourself
You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
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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
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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I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.
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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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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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Confusion Defeat
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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Flow Life Move On Past Philosophy

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