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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDA woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
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I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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You remind me of a smoked cigarette.
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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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A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.
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She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
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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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There’s no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don’t feel it at all.
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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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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
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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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