No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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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No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.
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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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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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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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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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Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
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Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.
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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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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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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.
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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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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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