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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThings are sweeter when they’re lost. I know–because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.
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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
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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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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 was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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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 romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.
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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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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 reason one writes isn’t the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
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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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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged–the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.
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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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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.
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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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