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.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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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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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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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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I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
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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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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
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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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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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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
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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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