Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDExperience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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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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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
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I want to tell you about your heart— you’ve probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.
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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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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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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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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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I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
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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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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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I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.
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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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Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
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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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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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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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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 the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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There’s no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don’t feel it at all.
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