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.
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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I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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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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I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
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Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.
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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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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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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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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.
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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.
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