We all have souls of different ages.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDNo matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.
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Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
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You really ought to read more books – you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
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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 see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.
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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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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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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.
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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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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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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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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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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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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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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.
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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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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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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged–the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.
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Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
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