The reason one writes isn’t the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThe ability to hold two competing thoughts in one’s mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind
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Long 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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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
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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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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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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.
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So we’ll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
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I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
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Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
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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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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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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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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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You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
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