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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDAnd I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
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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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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
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We all have souls of different ages.
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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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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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There’s no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don’t feel it at all.
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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 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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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be.
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Having 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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Never confuse activity with action.
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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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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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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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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