You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDVitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.
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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be.
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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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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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I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.
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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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I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.
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Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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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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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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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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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
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It 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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The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.
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Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
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One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
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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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