Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDYou are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
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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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She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.
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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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I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
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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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Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.
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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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I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.
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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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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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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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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
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I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.
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