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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDVitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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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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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
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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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So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
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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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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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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 never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
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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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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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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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The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
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I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.
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