I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDTo 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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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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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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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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Never confuse activity with action.
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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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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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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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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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You remind me of a smoked cigarette.
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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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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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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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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged–the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.
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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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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
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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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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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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
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I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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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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