At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDLife starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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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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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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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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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 won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
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I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
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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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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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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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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?
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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
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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 love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
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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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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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Someday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.
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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.
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We all have souls of different ages.
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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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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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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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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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