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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDI was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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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?
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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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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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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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I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
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It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
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We all have souls of different ages.
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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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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
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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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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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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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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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The 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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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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