The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
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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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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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.
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Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know–because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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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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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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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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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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I never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
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Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.
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