I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDLife 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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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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It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.
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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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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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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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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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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
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Never confuse activity with action.
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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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I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
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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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So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.
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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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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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