It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDExperience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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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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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
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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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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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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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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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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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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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Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?
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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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The reason one writes isn’t the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
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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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