Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDHaving once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
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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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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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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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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 really ought to read more books – you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
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Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created – nothing.
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The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.
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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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She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.
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Never confuse activity with action.
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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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It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.
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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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