Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDLong ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.
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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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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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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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Life is so damned hard, so damned hard… It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can’t be hurt ever any more. That’s the last and worst thing it does.
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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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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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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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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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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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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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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.
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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
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We all have souls of different ages.
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I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
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I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.
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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.
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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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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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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
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She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
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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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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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