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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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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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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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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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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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
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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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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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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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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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You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
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Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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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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