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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDSomeday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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Life is so damned hard, so damned hard… It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can’t be hurt ever any more. That’s the last and worst thing it does.
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I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
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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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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had.
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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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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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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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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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Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created – nothing.
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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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You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
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I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.
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I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
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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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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 suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
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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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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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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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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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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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