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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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Life is so damned hard, so damned hard… It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can’t be hurt ever any more. That’s the last and worst thing it does.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Hard Hurt Life People Worst
The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Club Country Live Rule World
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Bad Hands Lost Myself
Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Criticism Life Opportunity Remember Yourself
I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Life Myself Variety
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Care Cry Fire Myself
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Experience Mistake People
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Collection Information Life Myself Writing
Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Ability Argument Intelligence See Side Validation
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Cost Day Light Morning Night Smile Worth
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Friendship Knowledge Love Save Wisdom Yourself
You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Forget Myself Sad Stranger Try
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Confusion Defeat
I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Action Better Myself Word Yourself
The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one’s mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Ability Competition Hold Mindset Yourself
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Growth Mindset Myself People Place See

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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