One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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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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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She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.
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The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
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It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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The reason one writes isn’t the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
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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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We all have souls of different ages.
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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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Someday I’m going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.
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When I’m with you, I don’t breathe quite right.
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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