Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThat 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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She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
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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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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, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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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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I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
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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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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 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 remind me of a smoked cigarette.
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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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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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