I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDYou are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
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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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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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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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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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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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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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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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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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You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
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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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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
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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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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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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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