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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Condition Essential Happiness Life Struggle Yourself
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Hard Hurt Life People Worst
One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Determination Hope Oneself Pain
Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Myself People Secret Talk Wonderful
Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Addiction Alcohol Bad Right
The reason one writes isn’t the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Himself Oneself Reason Writing
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Experience Mistake Name People
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Growth Mindset Myself People Place See
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Met Myself People Rude
And in the end, we were all just humans, Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Break Drink End Healing Human Ideas Ourselves
When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Breathe Myself Presence Quite Right
You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Heart Oneself Place
And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Intimate Myself Party Privacy Small
Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Essence Forget Yourself
Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Future Herself Lost Past Realization Regret

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