The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDIt 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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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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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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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.
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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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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
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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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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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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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I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
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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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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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Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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