Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDIt 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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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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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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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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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
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We all have souls of different ages.
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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
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She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
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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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I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.
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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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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.
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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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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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So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
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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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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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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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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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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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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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