One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDSo he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
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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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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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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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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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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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Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.
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I didn’t realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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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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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
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