Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know–because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDSuddenly 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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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
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Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
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The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one’s mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind
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Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
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Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.
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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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The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.
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You remind me of a smoked cigarette.
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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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I want to tell you about your heart— you’ve probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.
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