One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDIntelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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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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She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
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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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I want to tell you about your heart— you’ve probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
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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 never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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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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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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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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Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.
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Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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