I never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
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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One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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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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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
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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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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be.
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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.
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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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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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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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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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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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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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