Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThat 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 beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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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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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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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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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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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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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.
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The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.
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She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
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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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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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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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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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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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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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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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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
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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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Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
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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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Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
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