Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.
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 love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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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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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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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
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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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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
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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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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.
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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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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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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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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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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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You remind me of a smoked cigarette.
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I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
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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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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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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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