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You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Blame Complication Effort Failure Life Mercy Myself Situation
I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Life Myself Variety
Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Body Deep Mindset
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Friendship Knowledge Love Save Wisdom Yourself
Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Herself Philosophy
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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Ability Function Hold Intelligence Time
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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Broken End Healing Human Ideas Love
I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Beginning End Love Myself Relationship
At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Cave Hide Ourselves
Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Criticism Life Opportunity Remember Yourself
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Future Herself Lost Past Realization Regret
For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Hope Life Live Proud Strength Worth Yourself
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Bad Hands Lost Myself
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Civilization Discipline Natural Power Thinking Yourself
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.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Brilliant Important Kind Listening Mindset People Right Talk Time
She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Forever Herself Himself Safety

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