Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDWas 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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To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
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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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Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.
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I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.
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Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
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You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
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Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.
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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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I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
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We all have souls of different ages.
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And in the end, we were all just humans, Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
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I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.
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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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One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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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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I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
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There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
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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 see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.
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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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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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