Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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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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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Someday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.
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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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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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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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I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.
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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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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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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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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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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.
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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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