Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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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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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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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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Someday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.
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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
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Never confuse activity with action.
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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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You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?
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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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