I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
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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And in the end, we were all just humans, Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
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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 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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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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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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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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I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.
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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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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
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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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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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We all have souls of different ages.
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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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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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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.
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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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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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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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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
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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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