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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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So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
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Course Flow Sorry
One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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Determination Hope Oneself Pain
Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
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Criticism Life Opportunity Remember Yourself
There’s no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don’t feel it at all.
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Fake Substitution Time Yourself
No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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Exploration Low Unknown Yourself
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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Blame Complication Effort Failure Life Mercy Myself Situation
Never confuse activity with action.
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Action Activity One Liner
Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
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Herself Philosophy
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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Confusion Defeat
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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Collection Information Life Myself Writing
Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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Close Kiss Love Relationship Romance Yourself
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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Desire Himself Kiss Man Wife Woman
You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.
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Known Love Myself Yourself
I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.
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Action Better Myself Word Yourself
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.
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Friendship Knowledge Love Save Wisdom Yourself
Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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