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 FITZGERALDAt eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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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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Someday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.
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Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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Never confuse activity with action.
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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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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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And in the end, we were all just humans, Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
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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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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
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Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created – nothing.
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