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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The reason one writes isn’t the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
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Himself Oneself Reason Writing
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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Broken End Healing Human Ideas Love
One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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Determination Hope Oneself Pain
So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
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Course Flow Sorry
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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Condition Essential Happiness Life Struggle Yourself
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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Hope Myself Person Romantic
You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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Heart Oneself Place
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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Civilization Discipline Natural Power Thinking Yourself
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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Day Generosity Live Night Smile Worth
Never confuse activity with action.
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Action Activity One Liner
Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
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Fast Ourselves Run
A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.
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Desire Himself Kiss Man Wife Woman
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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Beginning Creation Type Yourself
There’s no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don’t feel it at all.
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Fake Substitution Time Yourself
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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Flow Life Move On Past Philosophy
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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Feeling Herself Presence Pressure Right

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