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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDLife 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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One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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You remind me of a smoked cigarette.
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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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Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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We all have souls of different ages.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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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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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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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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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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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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She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
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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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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged–the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.
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