The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDTomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
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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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I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
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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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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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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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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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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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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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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.
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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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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.
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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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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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Things 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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