No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDEither 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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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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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
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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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I never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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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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I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.
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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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I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.
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One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
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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.
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