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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged–the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Affection Live Occupation People Space Yourself
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Ability Persistence Start
I want to tell you about your heart— you’ve probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Heart Neglect Yourself
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
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Collection Information Life Myself Writing
It 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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Day Generosity Live Night Smile Worth
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Beautiful Discover Isolation Literature Lonely Yourself
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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Blame Complication Effort Failure Life Mercy Myself Situation
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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Forget Myself Sad Stranger Try
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Friendship Knowledge Love Save Wisdom Yourself
There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Kind Love Relationship World
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Ability Function Hold Intelligence Time
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Beautiful Literature Lonely Yourself
There’s no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don’t feel it at all.
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Fake Substitution Time Yourself
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?
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Eyes Gorgeous Herself Mindset Mirror Sadness
So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Course Flow Sorry
I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Habit Kiss Myself

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

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