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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDExperience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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You really ought to read more books – you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
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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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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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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be.
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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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Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
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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.
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Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
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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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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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Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.
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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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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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They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
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One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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