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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDBefore you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
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You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
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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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She 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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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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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
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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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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
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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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I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
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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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I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.
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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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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 world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
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